Separating posterior-circulation stroke from vestibular neuritis with quantitative vestibular testing

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OBJECTIVE: To separate vestibular neuritis (VN) from posteriorcirculation stroke (PCS) using quantitative tests of canal and otolith function.

METHODS: Video Head-Impulse tests (vHIT) were used to assess all three semicircular canal pairs; vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain and saccade metrics were examined. Cervical and ocular-Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potentials (c- and oVEMP) and Subjective Visual Horizontal (SVH) were used to assess otolith function.

RESULTS: For controls (n = 40), PCS (n = 22), and VN (n = 22), mean horizontal-canal VOR-gains were 0.96 ± 0.1, 0.85 ± 0.3 and 0.40 ± 0.2, refixation-saccade prevalence was 71.9 ± 41, 90.7 ± 57, 209.2 ± 62 per 100 impulses and cumulative-saccade amplitudes were 0.9 ± 0.4°, 2.4 ± 2.2°, 8.0 ± 3.5°. Abnormality-rates for cVEMP, oVEMP and SVH were 38%, 9%, 72% for PCS, and 43%, 50%, 91% for VN. A gain ≤0.68, refixation-saccade prevalence of ≥135% and cumulative-saccade amplitudes ≥5.3° separated VN from PCS with sensitivities of 95.5%, 95.5%, and 81.8%, and specificities of 68.2%, 86.4% and 95.5%. VOR-gain and saccade prevalence when combined, separated VN from PCS with a sensitivity and specificity of 90.9%. Abnormal oVEMP asymmetry-ratios were of low sensitivity (50%) but high specificity (90.9%) for separating VN from PCS.

CONCLUSION: vHIT provided the best separation of VN from PCS. VOR-gain, refixation-saccade prevalence and amplitude were effective discriminators of VN from PCS.

SIGNIFICANCE: vHIT and oVEMP could assist early identification of the aetiology of Acute Vestibular Syndrome in the Emergency Room.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:131

Enthalten in:

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology - 131(2020), 8 vom: 28. Aug., Seite 2047-2055

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Calic, Zeljka [VerfasserIn]
Nham, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Bradshaw, Andrew P [VerfasserIn]
Young, Allison S [VerfasserIn]
Bhaskar, Sonu [VerfasserIn]
D'Souza, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Craig S [VerfasserIn]
Cappelen-Smith, Cecilia [VerfasserIn]
Cordato, Dennis [VerfasserIn]
Welgampola, Miriam S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute vestibular syndrome
Evaluation Study
Journal Article
Posterior circulation stroke
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Saccades
Vestibular neuritis
Vestibulo-ocular reflex
Video head impulse test

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Date Completed 19.05.2021

Date Revised 19.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clinph.2020.04.173

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311790283