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.
Department of Medicine, Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner, India.
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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