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Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances

Microvascular Decompression: Salient Surgical Principles and Technical Nuances

Published on: July 5, 2011

The critical warning sign of real-time brainstem auditory evoked potentials during microvascular decompression for

Sang-Ku Park¹, Byung-Euk Joo², Seunghoon Lee³

¹Departments of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Department of Animal Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Clinical Neurophysiology : Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

|January 18, 2018

Objective:

The aim of this study was to define the critical warning sign of real-time brainstem auditory evoked potential (BAEP) for predicting hearing loss (HL) after microvascular decompression (MVD) for hemifacial spasm (HFS).

Methods:

Nine hundred and thirty-two patients with HFS who underwent MVD with intraoperative monitoring (IOM) of BAEP were analyzed. We used a 43.9 Hz/s stimulation rate and 400 averaging trials to obtain BAEP. To evaluate HL, pure-tone audiometry and speech discrimination scoring were performed before and one week after surgery. We analyzed the incidence for postoperative HL according to BAEP changes and calculated the diagnostic accuracy of significant warning criteria.

Results:

Only 11 (1.2%) patients experienced postoperative HL. The group showing permanent loss of wave V showed the largest percentage of postoperative HL (p < 0.001). No patient who experienced only latency prolongation (≥1 ms) had postoperative HL. Loss of wave V and latency prolongation (≥1 ms) with amplitude decrement (≥50%) were highly associated with postoperative HL.

Conclusions:

Loss of wave V and latency prolongation of 1 ms with amplitude decrement ≥50% were the critical warning signs of BAEP for predicting postoperative HL.

Significance:

These findings elucidate the critical warning sign of real-time BAEP.

Keywords:

Brainstem auditory evoked potentials Hemifacial spasm Intraoperative monitoring Microvascular decompression Warning criteria

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