Journal of Electrodiagnosis and Neuromuscular Diseases (대한근전도전기진단의학회지)

Korean Association of EMG Electrodiagnostic Medicine (대한근전도전기진단의학회)
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Increased Intraoperative Motor Evoked Potentials and Motor Recovery after Spinal Cord Tumor Removal

척수 종양 제거 술 중 운동유발전위의 호전과 근력 호전의 관계

  • Pyo, Soeun (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Yoon Ghil (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Jinyoung (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Ko, Eu Jeong (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Rehabilitation Institute of Neuromuscular Disease, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 표소은 (연세대학교 의과대학, 강남세브란스병원 재활의학과, 희귀난치성 신경근육병 재활연구소) ;
  • 박윤길 (연세대학교 의과대학, 강남세브란스병원 재활의학과, 희귀난치성 신경근육병 재활연구소) ;
  • 박진영 (연세대학교 의과대학, 강남세브란스병원 재활의학과, 희귀난치성 신경근육병 재활연구소) ;
  • 고유정 (연세대학교 의과대학, 강남세브란스병원 재활의학과, 희귀난치성 신경근육병 재활연구소)
  • Received : 2018.09.24
  • Accepted : 2018.10.22
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate whether the increase of the amplitude of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) during surgery can imply favorable prognosis postoperatively in spinal cord tumor surgery. Method: MEPs were monitored in patients who underwent spinal cord tumor surgery between March 2016 and March 2018. Amplitude changes at the end of monitoring compared to the baselines in limb muscle were analyzed. Minimum and maximum changes were set to $MEP_{min}$ (%) and $MEP_{max}$ (%). Strengths of bilateral 10 key muscles which were documented a day before ($Motor_{pre}$), 48 h ($Motor_{48h}$) and 4 weeks ($Motor_{4wk}$) after the surgery were reviewed. Results: Difference of $Motor_{48h}$ from $Motor_{pre}$ ($Motor_{48h-pre}$) and $Motor_{4wk}$ from $Motor_{pre}$ ($Motor_{4wk-pre}$) positively correlated with $MEP_{min}$, suggesting that smaller the difference of MEPs amplitude, less recovery of muscle strength. There was a negative correlation between the amount of bleeding and $MEP_{min}$, indicating that the greater the amount of bleeding, the smaller the $MEP_{min}$, implying that MEPs amplitude is less likely to improve when the amount of bleeding is large. It also showed significant difference between patients with improved or no change of motor status and patients with motor deterioration after surgery according to anatomical tumor types. Conclusion: Improve of muscle strength was less when the increase of MEPs amplitude was small, and improvement of MEPs amplitude was less when the amount of bleeding was large. Correlation between changes of status of muscle strength after surgery and tumor types was observed. With amplitude increase in MEPs monitoring, restoration of muscle strength can be expected.

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