Abstract

GUERRERO ABREU, Jacqueline; DESCHAPELLES HIMELY, Eulogio; ESCOBAR GUILLEN, Hugo  and  LEDESMA ZITO, Liana. Value of auditory evoked potentials with neck maneuver in essential arterial hypertension. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 1996, vol.25, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3046.

A more sensitive technique for the functional assessment of the brain stem, is introduced; it is applied to 51 patients affected with essential arterial hypertension. This technical variety consisted in recording the brain stem auditory evoked potential with a neck turn maneuver. The alterations found in patients without clinical manifestations of vasculocerebral kind, pointed out the importance of this method for an early diagnosis of the brain stem dysfunction, when there are not yet clinical evidences, which confers it an important evolutive and predictive value.

Keywords : EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HYPERTENSION; BRAIN STEM [physiopathology].