Auditory brainstem response in diabetic coma and cerebral infarction

Yonekazu Tachibana, Yukihide Tsuji, Hiroyuki Tezuka, Akiro Terashi
1988 Journal of Nippon Medical School  
The auditory brainstem response (ABR) has been widely used for making a prognosis of the outcome of coma since the first report by Jewett in 1970. ABR is the early component of auditory evoked potential and the seven positive waves are recorded within 10 ms after auditory stimulation. These waves are designated I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII in order of appearance. Of these components, we observed waves I, III and V which originated in the brainstem and were stable. In our previous report, the
more » ... R patterns were categorized into the following five groups. Group-(A) consisted of wave I only; group-(B) waves I-III; group-(C) waves I-V, but with
doi:10.1272/jnms1923.55.329 pmid:3403699 fatcat:exfkiia6unfkpjkue5j7en2sh4