Multimodal evoked potentials in primary Sjögren's syndrome without neurological manifestations
Articles > Article · 2009
Authors: Figen GÖKÇAY, Neşe ÇELEBİSOY, Ahmet Gökçay, Gonca Öder, Yasemin Kabasakal, Kenan AKSU, Timur KÖSE
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES-TURKISH, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, Scopus, 2009, vol 26, pp 390-395
Summary
We evaluated multimodal evoked potentials in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome without clinical neurological manifestations. While brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were performed in ninety patients visual (VEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) could be evaluated in fifty-eight patients. The control group included 20 healthy adults matched for sex and chronological age. VEP and AEP studies did not reveal any abnormality. In SEP; N9-N13 interpeak latencies were significantly prolonged in the patients group. However, the latency of N9 potentials recorded from Erb's point was normal as well as the N13-N20 interpeak latencies. This result indicates that central branches of the primary sensory neurons are involved in Sjögren's syndrome.