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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Raghav Hira Jha, Erin G. Piker, Daniel Romero
Summary: The upward shift in frequency tuning of VEMPs among middle age and older adults could be due to the changes in the vestibular system and not from the middle ear. These results support the use of different frequency stimuli (i.e., 750 or 1,000 Hz) to elicit a VEMP if a response is absent using a 500 Hz stimulus, especially in patients over the age of 40.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY
(2022)
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Otorhinolaryngology
Canset Aydin, Ovsen Onay, Elif Ilkay Tezcan, Zuhal Askar, Ali Ozdek
Summary: The study found that chirp stimuli resulted in higher VEMP response rates for both cVEMP and oVEMP testing compared to tone burst stimuli. Chirp stimuli also led to higher p1n1 and rectified amplitudes, and shorter p1 and n1 latencies for cVEMP, as well as higher n1p1 amplitudes and shorter n1 and p1 latencies for oVEMP.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Keita Tsukada, Shin-ichi Usami
Summary: Less traumatic surgical techniques such as the round window approach (RWA) and flexible electrodes reduce the risk of damaging vestibular function in patients receiving cochlear implantation. Patients who underwent surgery using the RWA technique and flexible electrodes showed better preservation of vestibular function after implantation.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Nilufer Bal, Yildizhan Sengul, Meliha Basoz Behmen, Allison Powell, Elan D. Louis
Summary: This study used cVEMP and oVEMP tests to investigate the vestibulocollic and vestibuloocular reflex arcs and evaluate cerebellar and brainstem involvement in ET. The ET group showed higher pathological responses in oVEMP compared to the control group, suggesting that upper brainstem pathways may be more affected by ET.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION
(2023)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Hyun-Il Shin, Yesai Park, Hyun Jin Lee, Eun-Ju Jeon
Summary: This study examined the relationship between serum vitamin D levels and the recurrence of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). It was found that patients with lower serum vitamin D levels had a higher recurrence rate of BPPV. Therefore, measuring serum vitamin D levels is crucial for monitoring and evaluating the risk of BPPV recurrence.
AURIS NASUS LARYNX
(2023)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Kathrin Skorpa Nilsen, Stein Helge Glad Nordahl, Jan Erik Berge, Dhanushan Dhayalan, Frederik Kragerud Goplen
Summary: This study compared the application of cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP and oVEMP), video head impulse test (vHIT), and the traditional caloric test in patients with untreated vestibular schwannoma (VS). The results showed that 6-canal vHIT and the caloric test had the highest sensitivity in detecting vestibulopathy in these patients.
OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
(2023)
Review
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Niraj Kumar Singh, Prawin Kumar, Nirmala Jagadish, Akshay Mendhakar, Yatin Mahajan
Summary: The inter-frequency amplitude ratio (IFAR) of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) can potentially help identify Meniere's disease. This systematic review and meta-analysis found that IFAR is efficient in differentiating Meniere's disease from healthy controls and could serve as a potential marker for Meniere's disease. Further investigations are needed to confirm the utility of an enhanced IFAR value in exclusively identifying Meniere's disease.
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Clinical Neurology
Sandra Carpinelli, Philipp O. Valko, Daniel Waldvogel, Elena Buffone, Christian R. Baumann, Dominik Straumann, Esther Werth, Christopher J. Bockisch, Konrad P. Weber, Yulia Valko
Summary: The study found that the central vestibular pathways were more severely damaged in PSP patients compared to PD patients, as indicated by higher VEMP scores in PSP. There were meaningful correlations between VEMPs and motor and non-motor symptoms.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Morgane Marc, Charlotte Hautefort, Jean-Pierre Guichard, Philippe Herman, Emmanuel Houdart, Michel Toupet, Michael Eliezer
Summary: This study described the clinical characteristics of 22 patients with Unilateral Vestibular Atelectasis (UVA), a rare entity. The onset of UVA is often sudden, with positional vertigo reported in 41% of cases. Vestibular testing showed high prevalence of utricular dysfunction in oVEMPs and impaired canal function in vHIT.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
G. Bhavana, Kaushlendra Kumar, E. Anupriya
Summary: Changes during pregnancy have a significant impact on the vestibular evoked myogenic potential, leading to a reduction in peak to peak amplitude during the first trimester.
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Emma C. Argaet, Belinda Y. C. Kwok, Justine Bradley, Allison S. Young, Benjamin Nham, Zeljka Calic, Rachael L. Taylor, Jacob M. Pogson, Nicole Reid, Jonathan H. K. Kong, Sean Flanagan, Gabor M. Halmagyi, Sally M. Rosengren, Miriam S. Welgampola
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between two widely used otolith function tests, Subjective Visual Horizontal (SVH) and Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP). A retrospective analysis of 301 patients showed that SVH had a significant moderate correlation with bone-conducted oVEMP, and a weak correlation with air-conducted cVEMP. This finding supports the hypothesis of a common utricular origin for both SVH and oVEMPs.
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Niraj Kumar Singh, Husna Firdose
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of ageing on oVEMP, finding a significant decline in response rates, prolonged latencies, and reduced peak-to-peak amplitude after the age of 50. There were no significant differences in these parameters among age groups before 50, and the inter-aural amplitude difference ratio did not change significantly with age.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Navid Shahnaz, Eytan A. David
Summary: This study investigated the effects of body position and electrode montage on VEMP responses and established normative values for 44 healthy young adults. Results showed that scaled peak-to-peak amplitude was higher in males compared to females, highlighting a potential difference in VEMP responses between genders.
ACTA OTO-LARYNGOLOGICA
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Yue Zhang, Jamie Soper, Christine M. Lohse, Scott D. Z. Eggers, Kenton R. Kaufman, Devin L. McCaslin
Summary: The study aimed to examine the agreement between SVINT and caloric testing, oVEMP, and cVEMP for detecting asymmetric vestibular function. The results showed higher agreement between ipsilateral and contralateral SVINT with the caloric test compared with oVEMP and cVEMP. Specificity of SVINT was high for all assessments of vestibular function, indicating it is a useful indicator of vestibular function asymmetry.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF AUDIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Michael Eliezer, Michel Toupet, Juliette Housset, Emmanuel Houdart, Charlotte Hautefort
Summary: For MD patients, EH was observed in 18 out of 20 patients while only 1 patient each in the MV and vMD groups showed EH. Significant differences were found between groups in terms of EH on MRI (p = 0.001). MD patients had significantly higher PTA levels and oVEMP impairments compared to MV and vMD patients. However, no significant differences were observed in cVEMP impairments, asymmetric ratios, or 1000/500 ratios.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY
(2022)
