Venkat Ramani

Increased clearance of phenytoin during infectious mononucleosis.

HIPPOCRATES observed that epileptic patients had fewer seizures during febrile illnesses, and data gathered during epidemics of measles and typhoid in patients institutionalized at Bicetre and Salp...

Brainstem auditory evoked potentials in atypical facial neuralgia

Atypical facial neuralgia is an ill-defined syndrome of obscure etiology characterized by chronic facial pain. The diagnosis is one of exclusion, made only after carefully ruling out a variety of conditions that may cause orofacial pain. The present study detected brainstem abnormalities on the side of the facial pain through examination of brainstem auditory evoked potentials in two out of 12 patients who were clinically diagnosed as having atypical facial neuralgia. The recording of brainstem auditory evoked potentials provides a simple, well-standardized, noninvasive test that may be of value in the investigation of patients who have chronic facial pain.