Short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials in perinatal asphyxia.
Ten asphyxiated term newborns were studied in the first 6 months of life with median nerve short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials (SLSEP) and followed subsequently to a mean age of 20 months. Results of SLSEP correlated with subsequent outcome in every patient; normal and abnormal infants at subsequent examination were separable on the basis of prior SLSEP, although the severity of later disability could not be inferred from SLSEP.
D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology