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CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 127, Issue 3, Pages 1864-1871Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.11.041
Keywords
Multiple sclerosis; Prognosis; Monitoring; Evoked potentials
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [SPUM 33CM30-140338]
- Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society
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Objective: To compare the ability of different evoked potential scores (EPS) to monitor and predict the disease course in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: Seventy-two patients with MS or clinically isolated syndrome were investigated by visual, motor, and somatosensory EP and expanded disability status scale (EDSS) at baseline (T0) and months 6, 12, 24, 36 (T4). EP results were rated according to ordinal (o), semi-quantitative (sq), and quantitative (q) EPS. Spearman rank correlation and multivariable linear regression were used to investigate the associations between EPS and clinical disability. Results: All EPS correlated with EDSS cross-sectionally (0.72 <= rho <= 0.87, all p < 0.001) and longitudinally (0.39 <= rho <= 0.47, all p <= 0.004). EPST0 and EDSST0 together explained 85-86% of EDSST4 variance. A posteriori power calculation showed that the sample sizes needed to detect significant changes over 6 months in q-EPS, sq-EPS and o-EPS with 90% certainty would be 50, 129 and 222, respectively. q-EPS change(T1-T0) correlated with EDSS change(T4-T0) (rho = 0.56, p < 0.001), while sq-EPS and o-EPS changes(T1-T0) did not. Conclusion: All three EPS allow disease course monitoring in MS. However, the quantitative EPS detects clinically relevant short-term changes with a smaller sample size than semi-quantitative or ordinal EPS. Significance: These results underscore the potential of EPS to characterize MS disease evolution. (c) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. on behalf of International Federation of Clinical Neurophy-siology.
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