title: Functional recovery despite prolonged bilateral loss of somatosensory evoked potentials: report on two patients.
abstract: A bilateral loss of short latency somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) after head trauma or non-traumatic brain damage is normally associated with a deleterious neurological outcome. An adequate recovery in reported in two deeply comatose patients with head trauma or severe hypertensive encephalopathy despite prolonged bilateral loss of SSEPs over days, found in repeated recordings. Hence, a bilateral loss of SSEPs should not be considered alone for prediction of outcome in cerebral injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technical University of Dresden, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstrabetae 74, 01309 Dresden, Germany. theilen@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Theilen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ragaller
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: von Kummer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pohlmann-Eden
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schackert
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Albrecht
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D020343:Hypertensive Encephalopathy / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*