Gentamicin vestibulotoxicity with modern systemic dosing regimens : a prospective study using video-oculography

Objectives: To determine the incidence of gentamicin vestibulotoxicity with current dosing regimens, and to evaluate the feasibility of routine video-oculography on all patients given gentamicin. Materials and methods: In this prospective incidence study serial horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (HVOR) gain measurements were recorded using video-oculography on adult inpatients receiving intravenous gentamicin. The primary outcome was the proportion of patients developing impairment of their HVOR gain. Results: After exclusions, 42 patients were included in the analysis. Three patients (7.1%) developed asymptomatic vestibulotoxicity, exact 95% confidence interval 1.5-19.5%. In two of these patients the deficit resolved within several hours. No patients developed symptomatic vestibulotoxicity. There was no evidence for a generalised reduction in group HVOR gain with time. HVOR gain was not associated with total gentamicin dose, dynamic visual acuity or subjective imbalance. Conclusions and significance: Gentamicin may cause reversible, asymptomatic vestibulotoxicity. Video-oculography may be useful to monitor for vestibulotoxicity in patients treated with gentamcin; however, testing all patients routinely may be challenging.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:139

Enthalten in:

Acta oto-laryngologica - 139(2019), 9 vom: 16. Sept., Seite 759-768

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Smyth, Duncan [VerfasserIn]
Mossman, Stuart [VerfasserIn]
Weatherall, Mark [VerfasserIn]
Jolliffe, Evan [VerfasserIn]
Joshi, Purwa [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Jennifer [VerfasserIn]
Thorne, Katie [VerfasserIn]
Watson, Eloise [VerfasserIn]
Leadbetter, Ruth [VerfasserIn]
Mossman, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Moss, Tawhai [VerfasserIn]
Todd, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Schneider, Erich [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aminoglycosides
Gentamicin
Gentamicins
Incidence
Journal Article
Ototoxicity
Vestibulotoxicity
Video head impulse testing

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.01.2020

Date Revised 28.01.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/00016489.2019.1637935

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM299242668