title: [Diagnostic and prognostic significance of long latency reflexes, somatosensory evoked potentials and the blink reflex in cerebral ischemia].
abstract: In order to determine diagnostic and prognostic value of long latency reflexes, blink reflex and somatosensory evoked potentials in patients with ischemic brain disease (IBD), examinations were done in 32 patients of both sexes with IBD, average age 44-76 years. First examinations were performed within first week of the onset of IBD and in majority of patients repeated after 3 and 6 months. Changes of electrophysiological characteristics compared with the degree of IBD, clinical presentation, localization, extent of infarction zone (measured by CT) and functional recovery where analyzed. Electrophysiological changes were predominantly associated with amplitude of physiological response and were in correlation with the degree of IBD, localization and the extent of infarction zone. Latencies were prolonged only in case of subcortical ischemic lesions. Correlation between functional recovery and electrophysiological changes was present only within the structures responsible for certain components of electrophysiological responses and localization of ischemic lesion. In conclusion, electrophysiological examinations are of high diagnostic and predictive value in IBD.
authors.affiliation: Vojnomedicinska akademija, Klinika za neurologiju, Beograd.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jovicić
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dorévić
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marić
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Raicević
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Petković
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001767:Blinking; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011930:Reaction Time; D012018:Reflex
vernacular_title: Dijagnosticki i prognosticki znacaj refleksa dugih latenci, somatosenzornih evociranih potencijala i refleksa treptanja kod ishemijske bolesti mozga.