Somatosensory evoked potentials in cerebral malaria. A preliminary study.
Somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded in patients of cerebral malaria by (R) median nerve stimulation. Important observations of this study were delayed absolute latency of N20, increased N13-N20 IPL i.e. central conduction time and distorted and dispersed waveforms of N9 and N20 peaks. The possible pathologic mechanism is discussed.
Kochar
D K
DK
Department of Medicine, Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, India.
Makkar
R K
RK
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016779:Malaria, Cerebral / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008475:Median Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000503:physiopathology