Evoked potential monitoring during acute occlusion of the basilar artery and selective local thrombolytic therapy.
Neurophysiological examinations of brainstem functions before, during and after selective interventional neuroradiology i.e. selective intraarterial thrombolytic therapy of an acute occlusion of the basilar artery are reported. The success of the therapy was demonstrated by the reappearance of normal somatosensory potentials and of the blink reflex immediately after the thrombolysis. The BAEPs were continuously recorded during the thrombolysis. Normalization of the latencies and of the interpeak latencies at a very early stage of the therapy indicated the improvement of brainstem functions.
D000328:Adult; D001767:Blinking / Q000187:drug effects; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000187:drug effects*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000187:drug effects; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000187:drug effects; D013300:Streptokinase / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014715:Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency / Q000188:drug therapy*
D013300:Streptokinase