Visual evoked potentials in sarcoidosis.
The visual evoked potential to pattern reversal was recorded in 50 patients with sarcoidosis. Abnormalities of latency and amplitude were found in 15 patients (30%), including all 4 patients with clinically evident brain disease and 4 of 17 patients with overt ocular disease. Twenty-nine patients had no clinical evidence of ocular or neurologic disease, and 7 of them (24%) had abnormalities of the VEP, implying subclinical sarcoid lesions in structures at the base of the brain.
D000328:Adult; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D011930:Reaction Time; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000503:physiopathology*