Brainstem response audiometry in chronic Lyme borreliosis
| Autor: | Göran Bredberg, Mikael Sandström, Anders Hovmark, Christer Holmkvist, Eva Åsbrink |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Male Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Central nervous system Penicillins Audiology Language and Linguistics Speech and Hearing otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Humans In patient Pathological Aged Aged 80 and over Lyme Disease medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Lyme borreliosis Acrodermatitis Middle Aged medicine.disease Audiometry Evoked Response medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology Chronic Disease Evoked Potentials Auditory Female Brainstem Audiometry business Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans Brain Stem |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian audiology. 18(4) |
| ISSN: | 0105-0397 |
| Popis: | Auditory brainstem responses (ABR) were investigated in 26 patients with acrodermatitis chronic atrophicans, which is a late manifestation of Lyme borreliosis. Nine of the patients showed pathological ABR, four of them unilaterally and five bilaterally. The main pathological findings were: 1) Poor reproducibility of waves IV-V or of wave V; 2) Increased latency of wave V. After antibiotic treatment, ABR was improved in eight of the nine patients, and in three of them it was normal. In the five patients who did not completely recover, the improvement consisted in better reproducibility and a tendency towards normal wave V latencies. The results of this study indicate that the central nervous system may become involved in patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. |
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