%0 Journal Article
%T Altera£¿£¿es dos potenciais evocados auditivos do tronco encef¨¢lico em pacientes com esclerose m¨²ltipla
%A Lima
%A Tania Mara Assis
%A Crato
%A Aline Nascimento
%A Mancini
%A Patr¨ªcia Cotta
%A Sim£¿es
%A L¨ªlia Correa
%A Gon£¿alves
%A Denise Utsch
%J Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.1590/S0034-72992009000200004
%X alterations in early auditory evoked potentials (eaep) in individuals with demyelinating disease are suggestive of lesions in the brainstem. aim: this study aims to evaluate the prevalence of hearing disorders and altered eaep in multiple sclerosis (ms) patients. materials and method: sixteen female and nine male patients with a defined diagnosis of multiple sclerosis took part in this study. all individuals underwent hearing and eaep tests. the wave forms were categorized according to jerger (1986). results: fifty eaep tests were carried out; 70% were classified as type i (normal response) according to jerger's criteria. altered eaep results in at least one ear were classified into types ii, iii, iv or v according to jerger. females accounted for 31.25% of alterations, and males 44.44%, adding up to 36% of all cases. conclusions: these findings stress the importance of looking at eaep in cases where there is suspicion of demyelinating disease and in patients with a defined diagnosis for ms.
%K multiple sclerosis
%K auditory evoked potentials
%K brainstem.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-72992009000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en