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Laser evoked potentials Radiculopathy

https://read.qxmd.com/read/34155707/revealing-the-time-course-of-laser-evoked-potential-habituation-by-high-temporal-resolution-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dilara Kersebaum, Sophie-Charlotte Fabig, Manon Sendel, Alexandra Cristina Muntean, Ralf Baron, Philipp Hüllemann
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Reduced laser-evoked potential (LEP) habituation indicates abnormal central pain processing. But the paradigm (four stimulation blocks a 25 stimuli) is time consuming and potentially omits important information on the exact habituation time course. This study examined whether a high temporal resolution (HTR) analysis (dividing the four stimulation blocks into 12 analysis blocks) can answer the following questions: (a) After how many stimuli does LEP habituation occur? (b) Is there a difference in LEP habituation in younger versus older subjects? (c) Is HTR applicable on radiculopathy patients? METHODS: EEG data of 129 subjects were included...
November 2021: European Journal of Pain: EJP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29032189/laser-evoked-potentials-in-painful-radiculopathy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
P Hüllemann, C von der Brelie, G Manthey, J Düsterhöft, A K Helmers, M Synowitz, J Gierthmühlen, R Baron
OBJECTIVE: The aims of this exploratory study were (1) to develop a standardized objective electrophysiological technique with laser-evoked potentials to assess dorsal root damage quantitatively and (2) to correlate these LEP measures with clinical parameters and sensory abnormalities (QST) in the affected dermatome. METHODS: Thirty-eight patients with painful radiculopathy and 20 healthy subjects were investigated with LEP recorded from the affected dermatome and control areas as well as with quantitative sensory testing...
November 2017: Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28106318/reduced-laser-evoked-potential-habituation-detects-abnormal-central-pain-processing-in-painful-radiculopathy-patients
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
P Hüllemann, C von der Brelie, G Manthey, J Düsterhöft, A K Helmers, M Synowitz, R Baron
BACKGROUND: Repetitive painful laser stimuli lead to physiological laser-evoked potential (LEP) habituation, measurable by a decrement of the N2/P2 amplitude. The time course of LEP-habituation is reduced in the capsaicin model for peripheral and central sensitization and in patients with migraine and fibromyalgia. In the present investigation, we aimed to assess the time course of LEP-habituation in a neuropathic pain syndrome, i.e. painful radiculopathy. METHODS: At the side of radiating pain, four blocks of 25 painful laser stimuli each were applied to the ventral thigh at the L3 dermatome in 27 patients with painful radiculopathy...
May 2017: European Journal of Pain: EJP
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19777272/laser-evoked-potentials-prognostic-relevance-of-pain-pathway-defects-in-patients-with-acute-radiculopathy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Markus Quante, Jürgen Lorenz, Michael Hauck
The radicular pain syndrome is a major problem in public health care that can lead to chronic back and leg pain in 30%. Ischalgia and back pain are the most prominent signs of dorsal root affection. Until now, no clinical or neurophysiological test procedure exists that evaluates the function of the dorsal root and predicts the prognosis of patients suffering from RPS. We have recently demonstrated that laser-evoked potentials (LEP) are able to demonstrate dorsal root damage. With this study, we investigated 54 patients with acute radicular symptoms and compared LEP parameters (side to side difference of latency and amplitude, transformed to a z-score) with their state of health after 3 months to calculate their predictive value for outcome prognosis...
February 2010: European Spine Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17103230/dermatomal-laser-evoked-potentials-a-diagnostic-approach-to-the-dorsal-root-norm-data-in-healthy-volunteers-and-changes-in-patients-with-radiculopathy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Markus Quante, Michael Hauck, Melanie Gromoll, Ekkehard Hille, Jürgen Lorenz
We conducted a cross-sectional study of 40 radiculopathy patients in comparison with norm data from healthy subjects using a new electrophysiological method. Early manifestations of dorsal root impairment escape objective diagnosis by conventional somatosensory-evoked potentials due to the overlapping innervation of the affected dermatome by thickly myelinated mechanoreceptive afferents projecting to adjacent intact roots. Evidence suggested less intersegmental overlap for thermonociceptive afferents rendering laser-evoked potentials (LEP) sensitive to monosegmental dorsal root damage...
July 2007: European Spine Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/14579016/-laser-evoked-potentials-diagnostic-approach-to-the-dorsal-root
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Quante, F Lampe, M Hauck, B Bromm, E Hille, J Lorenz
Functional diagnostics of the dorsal root are especially effective via nociceptive fibers on account of less intersegmental overlap compared to large-diameter fibers of the mechanoreceptive afferents. Laser-evoked potentials (LEP) are induced by short, painful heat stimuli. The aim of this work was to describe changes of the LEP in cases of dorsal root damage. The recorded LEP changes will be discussed with regard to their prognostic value as well as pathophysiologic aspects of dorsal root damage. Dorsal root function was tested in 21 patients suffering from clinically proven radiculopathy in one of the segments L4 to S1...
October 2003: Der Orthopäde
https://read.qxmd.com/read/12686278/laser-evoked-potentials-in-post-herpetic-neuralgia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
A Truini, M Haanpää, R Zucchi, F Galeotti, G D Iannetti, A Romaniello, G Cruccu
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the reliability of laser-evoked potentials (LEPs) as a diagnostic tool in patients with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), i.e. a chronic painful condition that causes small-diameter fibre dysfunction. Furthermore, we sought information on pathophysiology of PHN pain. METHODS: We recorded 'late' LEPs after stimulation of the supraorbital, upper cervical, lower cervical, upper thoracic, mid thoracic, and lower thoracic territories in 12 control subjects and 40 patients with PHN...
April 2003: Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/8676136/sensory-deficits-of-a-nerve-root-lesion-can-be-objectively-documented-by-somatosensory-evoked-potentials-elicited-by-painful-infrared-laser-stimulations-a-case-study
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
J Lorenz, H C Hansen, K Kunze, B Bromm
Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in response to painful laser stimuli were measured in a patient with a unilateral sensory deficit due to radiculopathy at cervical levels C7 and C8. Laser evoked potentials (LEPs) were compared with SEPs using standard electrical stimulation of median and ulnar nerves at the wrist and mechanical stimulation of the fingertips by means of a mechanical stimulator. Early and late ulnar and median nerve SEPs were normal. Mechanical stimulation resulted in w shaped early SEPs from all five fingertips with some degree of abnormality at the fourth and fifth digits of the affected hand...
July 1996: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
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