[The EEG in multiple sclerosis (author's transl)].
An abnormal EEG was obtained in altogether 76% of cases in a series of 172 patients with multiple sclerosis. Among the patients with minor neurological defects and a shorter duration of illness, only 26% of the EEGs were abnormal, whereas abnormal recordings were found in a high percentage of bedridden patients with severe neurological disturbances, irrespective of the duration of the illness, i.e. in 83% and 85% of these patients, subdivided according to illness of under or over 10 years' duration, respectively. Hence, severity of multiple sclerosis rather than length of the disease appears to be reflected in an abnormal EEG. Definite prognostic information concerning life expectancy cannot be otained from the EEG. Organic brain syndrom were closely correlated with the severity of EEG changes. Epileptic manifestations were clinically observed in 5.23% of the patients, all of whom manifested pathological EEG recordings.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis
Das EEG im Verlauf der multiplen Sklerose.