Evoked Potentials
Visual Evoked Potential (VEP)
Indications:
- Multiple Sclerosis (Suspected/Follow-up)
- Optic neuropathy
- Optic neuritis
- Ocular hypertension
- Glaucoma
- Diabetes
- Toxic amblyopia
- Glaucoma
- Leber hereditary optic neuropathy
- Aluminum neurotoxicity
- Manganese intoxication
- Retrobulbar neuritis
- Ischemic optic neuropathy
- Tumors compressing the optic nerve - Optic nerve gliomas, meningiomas, craniopharyngiomas, giant aneurysms, and pituitary tumors.
Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAEP)
Indications:
- Multiple sclerosis
- Cerebellopontine angle lesions
- Brainstem stroke
- Brainstem tumor
- Comatose patients -indicator of prognosis
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials (Median and Tibial)
Indications:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myelopathy
- Syringomyelia
- Polyneuropathy
- Lumbosacral disc disease
- Intraoperative monitoring