Vestibular compensation following vestibular neurotomy

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OBJECTIVES: Four studies assessing vestibular compensation in Menière's disease patients undergoing unilateral vestibular neurotomy, using different analysis methods, are reviewed, with a focus on the different strategies used by patients according to their preoperative sensory preference.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Four prospective studies performed in a university tertiary referral center were reviewed, measuring the pattern of vestibular compensation in Menière's disease patients before and after unilateral vestibular neurotomy on various assessment protocols: postural syndrome assessed on static posturography and gait analysis; perceptual syndrome assessed on subjective visual vertical perception; and oculomotor syndrome assessed on ocular cyclotorsion.

RESULTS: Vestibular compensation occurred at variable intervals depending on the parameter investigated. Open-eye postural control and gait/walking returned to normal one month after neurotomy. Fine balance analysis found that visual perception of the vertical and ocular cyclotorsion impairment persisted at long-term follow-up. Clinical postural disturbance persisted only when visual afferents were cut off (eyes closed). These impairments were the expression of a postoperative change in postural strategy related to the new use of visual and non-visual references.

CONCLUSIONS: Understanding pre-operative interindividual variation in balance strategy is critical to screening for postural instability and tailoring vestibular rehabilitation.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:132

Enthalten in:

European annals of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck diseases - 132(2015), 4 vom: 20. Sept., Seite 197-203

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Devèze, A [VerfasserIn]
Montava, M [VerfasserIn]
Lopez, C [VerfasserIn]
Lacour, M [VerfasserIn]
Magnan, J [VerfasserIn]
Borel, L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Menière's disease
Postural recovery
Review
Unilateral vestibular neurotomy
Vestibular compensation
Visual dependency

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Date Completed 15.06.2016

Date Revised 08.09.2015

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.anorl.2015.04.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM249495244