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Transcranial magnetic stimulation implementation on stroke prognosis.

Stella KaratzetzouDimitrios TsiptsiosAikaterini TerzoudiNikolaos AggeloussisKonstantinos Vadikolias
Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)
Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) recording is indicative of a favorable prognosis concerning the motor recovery of upper and lower extremities' weakness, swallowing and speech difficulties, and the patient's general functional outcome. On the contrary, MEP absence is usually associated with poor prognosis. Relative correlations have also been made among other TMS variants (motor threshold, MEP amplitude, central motor conduction time) and the expected recovery rate. Overall, TMS represents a non-invasive, fast, safe, and reproducible prognostic tool poststroke that could resolve prognostic uncertainties in cases of stroke.
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