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      A eletrencefalografia no diagnóstico e prognóstico dos abscessos cerebrais Translated title: Electroencephalography in the diagnosis and prognosis of cerebral abscess

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          Os autores, que vêm fazendo exames eletrencefalográficos sistematizadamente em casos de abscessos cerebrais desde 1951, relatam sua experiência, ressaltando os elementos que o EEG proporciona para o diagnóstico e prognóstico desses processos. O material que apresentam é de 22 casos (20 com EEG pré-operatório, 17 dos quais com seguimento eletrencefalográfico pós-operatório, e 2 nos quais só foi feito EEG pós-operatório) com diagnóstico confirmado pela ar-teriografia e pela intervenção cirúrgica. Todos foram submetidos a trata- mento cirúrgico e antibiótico, sendo o seguimento clínico-eletrencefalográfico a partir do 30º dia após a intervenção cirúrgica. No grupo dos pacientes com EEG pré-operatório foram encontradas alterações difusas do traçado em 20 casos (100%) e alterações focais consistentes em ondas delta 0,5 a 3 c/s, potencial de 400 a 500 mV (19 casos), depressão focal do ritmo de base (11 casos), foco epileptógeno (2 casos). As ondas delta bastante lentas e a depressão focal do ritmo de base constituem elemento de valor para o diagnóstico, particularmente quando interpretados em consonância com a clínica. No grupo de pacientes seguidos com exames clínicos e eletrencefalográficos sistemáticos, por um período que variou de 1 a 60 meses, foram encontrados sinais de foco convulsiógeno ativo em 10 dos 17 pacientes observados. Na opinião dos autores êste índice anormalmente elevado está em consonância com a freqüência de epilepsia pós-abscesso cerebral. O tempo que decorreu entre a operação e o aparecimento do foco ativo variou de 1 até 25 meses. Dêsses 10 pacientes com foco ativo e com epilepsia clìnicamente comprovada, sòmente 2 tinham foco anteriormente ao processo de "cura" do abscesso. Os autores discutem êsse problema e pensam ser os processos de cicatrização - processos crônicos -- os responsáveis por tais manifestações clínico-eletrencefalográficas. Ainda neste grupo chamam atenção para o fato de que em sòmente 4 pacientes o EEG continuou a se manter normal durante todo período de observação, sendo que 2 outros tiveram EEG normal por 5 e 15 meses, respectivamente, e, mais tarde apresentaram foco ativo. Ao lado dêstes focos epileptógenos, em 3 pacientes havia também sinais de sofrimento do parênquima nervoso (ondas delta) 1 a 3 meses depois da intervenção cirúrgica (casos com convulsões reiteradas ou ainda com sinais do abscesso em evolução). Em 6 casos havia certa depressão focai pós-operatória no EEG; em 4 havia alterações frustras do ritmo de base, alterações estas de tipo cicatricial e sem correlação clínica correspondente. Concluem os autores que o EEG constitui excelente método auxiliar no diagnóstico de abscessos cerebrais e, principalmente, elemento muito útil no prognóstico dos casos tratados, quer evidenciando desaparecimento dos sinais agudos de comprometimento cerebral, quer fornecendo precocemente sinais da formação de foco convulsiógeno ativo, possibilitando a instituição precoce de terapêutica anticonvulsiva.

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          The authors have made electroencephalographs studies in cases of cerebral abscess since 1951; these records were always obtained before any neurosurgical treatment and were repeated several times after the surgical approach. The authors call the attention to the important data that the EEG can offer to the diagnosis of cerebral abscess and to the prognosis in patients who were operated on. Twenty-two patients (20 had EEG previously to the surgical treatment, 17 with repeated EEG after the operation and 2 had EEG only after the operation) were clinically and electroencephalographically studied, the diagnosis being confirmed by arteriograms and by the surgical treatment. AH patients were operated on and received antibiotics. In the present paper the EEG changes found during the first month following the surgical treatment were not included. In the group of patients with EEG obtained before the surgical treatment, the authors found difuse changes in the record of the 20 patients (100 per cent), and focal changes consisting mainly by delta waves of 0.5-3 c/s, potential of 400-500 mV (19 cases) focal depression of the basic rhythm (11 cases); epileptogenic focus was found only in 2 cases. The very slow delta waves and focal depression of the basic rhythm represent very important data for the diagnosis, particularly when studied in relation to the clinic data. In the group of patients who had clinical and EEG examinations after the operation, being the EEG records repeated during a period of time from one to 60 months, the authors found signs of active convulsive focus in 10 out of 17 patients. In the opinion of the authors this incidence is very high and it is in accordance with the high frequency of epilepsy following cerebral abscess. The lenght of time between the operation and the onset of the focal activity varied from one to 25 months. Out of the 10 patients with focal activity and with clinical epilepsy, only 2 patients had presented focal activity before to the "healing" of the abscess. The authors discuss this problem and believe that the healing, which is a chronic process, is the responsible for the onset of these clinically and electroencephalographically manifestations. In the same group only 4 patients had normal EEG during all the follow-up; 2 patients had normal EEG during 5 and 15 months, but developed focal activity later on. Other 3 patients had signs of suffering of the nervous tissue (delta waves) from one to 3 months after the operation (patients with convulsive seizures or still with signs of abscess in evolution).. In 6 cases there was slight changes of the basic rhythm, which were due to the healing and with no clinical correlation. The authors conclude that the EEG is a very important auxiliary method for the diagnosis of cerebral abscess and for the prognosis of those cases surgically treated, since it shows disappearance of acute signs of cerebral involvement, or early formation of active convulsive focus, permitting the begining of the anticonvulsive therapy.

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                Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
                Arq. Neuro-Psiquiatr.
                Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO (São Paulo, SP, Brazil )
                0004-282X
                1678-4227
                June 1957
                : 15
                : 2
                : 125-147
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                [01] orgnameUniv. de São Paulo orgdiv1Fac. Med.
                [02] orgnameFac. Med. de Ribeirão Preto
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                S0004-282X1957000200002 S0004-282X(57)01500200002
                db23d5b0-e8ea-4f46-aec6-6017b932e001

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