CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: One of the techniques used for treating facial paralysis is double muscle innervation using end-to-end neurorrhaphy with sectioning of healthy nerves. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether double muscle innervation by means of end-to-side neurorrhaphy could occur, with maintenance of muscle innervation. DESIGN AND SETTING: Experimental study developed at the Experimental Research Center, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Unesp. METHODS: One hundred rats were allocated to five groups as follows: G1, control group; G2, the peroneal nerve was sectioned; G3, the tibial nerve was transected and the proximal stump was end-to-side sutured to the intact peroneal nerve; G4, 120 days after the G3 surgery, the peroneal nerve was sectioned proximally to the neurorrhaphy; G5, 120 days after the G3 surgery, the peroneal and tibial nerves were sectioned proximally to the neurorrhaphy. RESULTS: One hundred and fifty days after the surgery, G3 did not show any change in tibial muscle weight or muscle fiber diameter, but the axonal fiber diameter in the peroneal nerve distal to the neurorrhaphy had decreased. Although G4 showed atrophy of the cranial tibial muscle 30 days after sectioning the peroneal nerve, the electrophysiological test results and axonal diameter measurement confirmed that muscle reinnervation had occurred. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that double muscle innervation did not occur through end-to-side neurorrhaphy; the tibial nerve was not able to maintain muscle innervation after the peroneal nerve had been sectioned, although muscle reinnervation was found to have occurred, 30 days after the peroneal nerve had been sectioned. RESUMO CONTEXTO E OBJETIVO:Uma das técnicas utilizadas para tratamento da paralisia facial é a dupla inervação muscular com neurorrafia término-terminal, seccionando-se nervos sadios. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a ocorrência de dupla inervação muscular através de neurorrafia término-lateral e a manutenção da inervação. TIPO DE ESTUDO E LOCAL: Estudo experimental desenvolvido no Centro de Pesquisa Experimental da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Unesp. MÉTODOS: Cem ratos foram distribuídos em cinco grupos: G1, controle; G2, secção do nervo fibular; G3, o nervo tibial foi seccionado e o coto proximal suturado na lateral do nervo fibular íntegro; G4, 120 dias após a cirurgia do G3, o nervo fibular foi seccionado proximal à neurorrafia; G5, 120 dias após a cirurgia do G3, os nervos fibular e tibial foram seccionados proximal à neurorrafia. RESULTADOS: Após 150 dias da cirurgia, não foi observada variação na massa do músculo tibial ou no diâmetro das fibras musculares no G3, porém, houve redução do diâmetro da fibra axonal do nervo fibular distal à neurorrafia. Embora, no G4, tenha ocorrido atrofia do músculo tibial cranial 30 dias após a secção do nervo fibular, os resultados do teste eletrofisiológico e da medida do diâmetro axonal confirmaram a ocorrência de reinervação muscular. CONCLUSÃO: Estes resultados sugerem que a dupla inervaç...
The neurophysiologic study in the modality of electroneuromyography (ENMG) determined and quantified the components in the motor ambit. The main data supplied by the examination was from the motor and sensory nerve conduction studies and by electromyography. However, many factors can interfere with the nervous response to electrostimulation, such as: age, gender, temperature, humidity, and other things. The aim of this work was to verify the effect of surgical exposure of the sciatic, common fibular, tibial, and cranial tibial muscle nerves in a neurophysiologic test on rats. Twenty (20) Wistar male rats were utilized, with approximately 80 days of age, divided into two groups. In the normal group the exam was made without the surgical exposure of the fibular nerve. In the surgical group the common fibular nerve was exposed. With the experimental model utilized, it was concluded that the neurophysiologic test done on animals with nerves and muscles surgically exposed is viable, since the alteration in animal temperature did not interfere significantly with the values of the electrophysiological parameters observed. In addition, the exposure of nerves and muscles allows stimulation of an exact point on the target nerve.
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