Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEP) as a Diagnostic Method for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Auditory evoked potentials (AEP), as well as other forms of the evoked cerebral potentials (ECP), MRI of the brain and spinal cord, as well as biochemical analyses of cerebrospinal liquor are obligatory diagnostic methods in diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The main goal in this paper is to determine the correlation between clinical examination, MRI and AEP This Study included 40 patients with clinical sings of likely multiple sclerosis who were hospitalized at Neurology Clinic during 2005 with expressed neurological symptoms: visual problems, signs of central motor neuron lesions and simptomathology of brain stem.Out of this number 37 underwent MRI scanning while three patients did not due to presence of metal particles in the body. AEP test was done for all patients.Based on our research we can conclude that AEP is still important in a diagnostic process of MS, especially in situations when MRI cannot be done.