The human vestibulo-ocular reflex and compensatory saccades in schwannoma patients before and after vestibular nerve section

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OBJECTIVE: To examine the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and compensatory-saccades before and after complete unilateral vestibular deafferentation (UVD).

METHODS: Forty patients were studied before and after surgery for vestibular or facial schwannoma using the video head-impulse test (vHIT) and multivariable regression.

RESULTS: Prior to UVD (median(IQR), 14(58.4) days), the average VOR-gain towards the lesioned-ear was lower than in normal for all semicircular canals (lateral, anterior, posterior: 0.69, 0.72, 0.49). One-week after UVD (5(3.0) days) VOR gains were further reduced (0.22, 0.37, 0.27), however, within one-year after UVD (171(125.0) days) the lesioned-ear VOR gains had slightly increased (+0.08, +0.11, +0.03), maximally for the anterior-canal. After UVD, the VOR gain asymmetry (gain towards minus away from intact-ear) was lower for the intact posterior-canal plane (0.56, 0.56, 0.22). For the lesioned canals, the frequency and amplitude of the first compensatory-saccade increased from 61-93% and 1.9-3.6° pre-surgery, to 98-99% and to 3.1-5.9° one-week post-surgery and remained unchanged over one-year; second saccade frequency and amplitude decreased over the same timespan.

CONCLUSIONS: After UVD the high-acceleration VOR for the intact posterior-canal plane is more symmetrical than the other canals. First compensatory-saccades adapt within one week and subsequently change only marginally.

SIGNIFICANCE: Saccade compensation from surgical UVD is near complete by one-week.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Jun;138:189-190. - PMID 35339380

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:138

Enthalten in:

Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology - 138(2022) vom: 01. Juni, Seite 197-213

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pogson, Jacob M [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Rachael L [VerfasserIn]
Bradshaw, Andrew P [VerfasserIn]
McGarvie, Leigh [VerfasserIn]
D'Souza, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Flanagan, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Biggs, Nigel [VerfasserIn]
Shivalingam, Brindha [VerfasserIn]
Greenberg, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Croxson, Glen [VerfasserIn]
Halmagyi, G Michael [VerfasserIn]
Welgampola, Miriam S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Saccades
Schwannoma
Vestibular system
Vestibulo-ocular reflex
Video head impulse test

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Date Completed 24.05.2022

Date Revised 23.06.2022

published: Print-Electronic

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8868218

CommentIn: Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Jun;138:189-190. - PMID 35339380

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.clinph.2022.02.014

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338999647