The obturator nerve lies deep within the pelvis, and it can be damaged by direct injury during surgery. In this study, conduction was used to confirm an in a patient who presented with hip adductor weakness following gynecological surgery for endometrial cancer. A 56-year-old woman complained of right muscles after laparoscopic hysterectomy due Seven days surgery, degree Medical Research Counci...

Nerve conduction velocity has been studied in the ulnar nerve of human subjects before and during anaesthesia. No significant changes in velocity were observed following the administration of thiopentone, nitrous oxide, oxygen and halothane in normal clinical quantities. A transient increase in nerve conduction velocity was noted following the administration of paralytic doses of gallamine trie...

AIM To compare different method(s) to detect peripheral neuropathy in leprosy and to study the validity of the monofilament test (MF) and the voluntary muscle test (VMT) as standard tests of nerve function. DESIGN A multi-centre cohort study of 303 multibacillary (MB) leprosy patients. METHODS Newly registered MB patients requiring a full course of MDT were recruited in two leprosy outpatie...

AIM To prove the possibility of axillary nerve conduction changes following shoulder subluxation due to hemiplegia, in order to investigate the usefulness of screening nerve conduction studies in patients with hemiplegia for finding peripheral neuropathy. METHODS Forty-four shoulders of twenty-two patients with a first-time stroke having flaccid hemiplegia were tested, 43 +/- 12 days after st...

PURPOSE To non-invasively study the sensory nerve conduction of the caudal nerve of normal developing rats. METHODS Twenty normal Wistar male rats served as subjects. Caudal nerve conduction studies were performed at 60 days from birth and weekly at end of six consecutive weeks. The caudal nerve was stimulated distally and nerve potentials were recorded proximally on the animal's tail using c...

To investigate the effect of tension on the contractive force of muscle and nerve conduction velocity of the repaired nerve, this study was designed. Fifty-four Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 3 groups. The left gastrocnemius muscles of the rats were dissected with the neurovascular pedicles intact; the tibial nerves were cut and immediately repaired by epineurial suture. Th...

Previously we have demonstrated that diabetes causes impairment in vascular function of epineurial vessels, which precedes the slowing of motor nerve conduction velocity. Treatment of diabetic rats with aldose reductase inhibitors, aminoguanidine or myo-inositol supplementation have been shown to improve motor nerve conduction velocity and/or decreased endoneurial blood flow. However, the effec...

Collegenase is widely used in the process of teasing a nerve in order to perform single fiber action potential (SFAP) recordings. In this study, the effects of collagenase on nerve conduction parameters were investigated. To accomplish this, normal compound action potentials (nCAPs) were recorded from isolated frog sciatic nerve at various distances using the suction technique. Then, the same n...

Nerve conduction studies are an essential part of the work-up of peripheral neuropathies. Many neuropathic syndromes can be suspected on clinical grounds, but optimal use of nerve conduction study techniques (in combination with needle electromyography) allows diagnostic classification and is therefore crucial to understanding and separation of neuropathies. Multifocal motor neuropathy, for exa...