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  • Title: [Median nerve electrophysiological assessment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis].
    Author: Emeryk-Szajewska B, Kostera-Pruszczyk A, Rowińska-Marcińska K, Karwańska A.
    Journal: Neurol Neurochir Pol; 1998; 32(1):39-49. PubMed ID: 9631377.
    Abstract:
    Our material comparises 105 patients (62 men and 43 women) aged 26-73 years with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). EMG examination confirmed the diagnosis of multilevel lesion of spinal motor neurons. Clinically, 94 of them had classical ALS, 3 had primary bulbar palsy (PBP), 6 had primary motor spinal atrophy (PSMA), and 2 had primary lateral sclerosis (PLS). Disease duration was 18.1 month, on the average, ranging from 2-60 months. In all patients motor and sensory nerve conduction was studied in median, peroneal and sural nerves. Conduction velocity, distal latency, F-wave latency of motor nerves, amplitude of M response and of sensory potentials were evaluated. Abnormalities were found most often in the motor fibres of median nerve: lowering of the M response amplitude in 44% of nerves studied, slowing of conduction velocity and elongation of distal latency in ca. 30%, elongation of F-wave latency in 27%. In the peroneal nerve the changes were less frequent: 38%, 21%, and 3%, respectively. They were also less marked. In the sensory fibres of median nerve slowing of conduction velocity was found in 25% of nerves, in sural nerve in 11%. Some slight decrease of amplitude of sensory potentials was seen in those nerves. The results obtained indicate a possibility of peripheral nerve lesion in the course of ALS which must be remembered in clinical diagnosing.
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