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Abnormalities of Multimodality Evoked Potentials in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Jean K. Matheson, MD;
Hugh J. Harrington, MB, MRCP;
Mark Hallett, MD
Arch Neurol. 1986;43(4):338-340.
Abstract
• Thirty-two patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were studied with somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs), visual evoked potentials, and brain-stem auditory evoked potentials. H-reflexes were used to screen for abnormalities of peripheral nerve conduction. Nineteen patients (59%) showed an abnormality of lower extremity SEPs. In 13 patients (40%) the delay was of central origin, while in six patients (19%) peripheral conduction delay was possible. Abnormality of upper limb SEPs was seen in 11 patients (34%), all but two of whom had abnormal lower limb SEPs as well. Four patients (12%) had abnormal brain-stem auditory evoked potentials, all of whom had abnormal SEPs from upper and lower limbs. Four patients had abnormal visual evoked potentials, which in three patients were of minor degree. These results give physiologic evidence to suggest that abnormalities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis occur outside the motor system.
Author Affiliations
From the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr Matheson is now with Beth Israel Hospital, Boston; Dr Harrington is now with Regional Hospital, Cork, Ireland; and Dr Hallett is now with the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 8, 1985.
Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the American Association of Electromyography and Electrodiagnosis, Toronto, Sept 30, 1983.
Reprint requests to Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (Dr Matheson).
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