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The objective of this study was to describe intraoperative abducens EMG characteristics and determine whether these electrophysiological profiles are associated with immediately postoperative and long-term ANP outcomes after ESBS.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The authors conducted a 5-year (2011\u20132016) retrospective case-control study of patients who underwent ESBS in whom the abducens nerve was stimulated (t-EMG). Electrophysiological metrics were compared between patients with a new postoperative ANP (cases) and those without ANP (controls). Pathologies included chordoma, pituitary adenoma, meningioma, cholesterol granuloma, and chondrosarcoma. Electrophysiological data included the presence of abnormal f-EMG activity, t-EMG stimulation voltage, stimulation threshold, evoked compound muscle action potential (CMAP) amplitude, onset latency, peak latency, and CMAP duration at various stages of the dissection. Controls were selected such that pathologies were similarly distributed between cases and controls.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Fifty-six patients were included, 26 with new postoperative ANP and 30 controls without ANP. Abnormal f-EMG activity (28.0% vs 3.3%, p = 0.02) and lack of response to stimulation (27% vs 0%, p = 0.006) were more frequent in patients with immediately postoperative ANP than in controls. Patients with immediately postoperative ANP also had a lower median CMAP amplitude (35.0 vs 71.2 \u03bcV, p = 0.02) and longer onset latency (5.2 vs 2.8 msec, p = 0.04). Comparing patients with transient versus persistent ANP on follow-up, those with persistent ANP tended to have a lower CMAP amplitude (12.8 vs 57 \u03bcV, p = 0.07) and higher likelihood of not responding to stimulation at the end of the case (45.5% vs 7.1%, p = 0.06). Abnormal f-EMG was not associated with long-term ANP outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The presence of f-EMG activity, lack of CMAP response to stimulation, decreased CMAP amplitude, and increased CMAP onset latency were associated with immediately postoperative ANP. Long-term ANP outcomes may be associated with t-EMG parameters, including whether the nerve is able to be stimulated once identified and CMAP amplitude. Future prospective studies may be designed to standardize abducens nerve electrophysiological monitoring protocols to further refine operative and prognostic utility.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.10.jns23648","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,30]],"date-time":"2023-12-30T01:20:13Z","timestamp":1703899213000},"page":"1584-1590","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Electromyographic predictors of abducens nerve palsy after endoscopic skull base surgery"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"140","author":[{"given":"Joaquin E.","family":"Jimenez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology\u2013Head & Neck Surgery,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mahmoud","family":"Omar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gregory M.","family":"Adams","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tina","family":"Costacou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Parthasarathy D.","family":"Thirumala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Donald J.","family":"Crammond","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katherine M.","family":"Anetakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jeffrey R.","family":"Balzer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Varun","family":"Shandal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carl H.","family":"Snyderman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology\u2013Head & Neck Surgery,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paul A.","family":"Gardner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Georgios A.","family":"Zenonos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eric W.","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Otolaryngology\u2013Head & Neck Surgery,"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"6","key":"b1","series-title":"J Neurosurg","first-page":"1544","article-title":"Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery: analysis of complications in the authors\u2019 initial 800 patients","volume":"114","author":"Kassam AB","year":"2011","unstructured":"Kassam AB, Prevedello DM, Carrau RL,  Endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery: analysis of complications in the authors\u2019 initial 800 patients. 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