Electromyography and clinical neurophysiology
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Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol · May 2006
Comparative StudyEvaluation of asymptomatic central neuropathy in type I diabetes mellitus.
Diabetic neuropathy is recognized as the most common clinical picture of nervous system disorders caused by diabetes mellitus (DM). Although peripheral and autonomic nervous system involvements are frequently encountered, there exists a few data about the incidence of central diabetic neuropathies. Central nervous system degeneration is a well known pathology in diabetic patients in the long term. It is possible to reveal central nervous system involvement at the early stages by using evoked potentials (EP). The aim of this study is to evaluate the auditory, visual and sensorial abnormalities in type I diabetic patients, who also have normal nerve conduction studies, with somatosensory, brainstem auditory and visual EP studies (SEP, VEP BAEP); to determine the frequency of these abnormalities and to investigate the relationship between other variables such as age, gender, duration of the diabetes and degree of the metabolic control. ⋯ Besides independent from peripheral pathologies, central nervous system involvement could also be observed in diabetic children. EP changes can be detected in asymptomatic patients that would be a predictor of future symptoms.
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Electromyogr Clin Neurophysiol · May 2006
Initial EEG in status epilepticus is helpful in predicting seizure recurrence.
There is paucity of prospective studies evaluating the role of EEG in the prognosis of status epilepticus (SE). The present study aims at evaluating the role of clinical, EEG and radiological changes in predicting the outcome of SE. ⋯ EEG is useful in monitoring SE and its abnormality at 1 hour predicts seizure recurrence within 24-hour.