Post Cochlear Implantation Vertigo : Ictal Nystagmus and Audiovestibular Test Characteristics

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate ictal nystagmus and audiovestibular characteristics in episodic spontaneous vertigo after cochlear implantation (CI).

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective and prospective case series.

PATIENTS: Twenty-one CI patients with episodic spontaneous vertigo after implantation were recruited.

INTERVENTIONS: Patient-initiated home video-oculography recordings were performed during one or more attacks of vertigo, using miniature portable home video-glasses. To assess canal and otolith function, video head-impulse tests (vHITs) and vestibular-evoked myogenic potential tests were conducted.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Nystagmus slow-phase velocities (SPVs), the presence of horizontal direction-changing nystagmus, and post-CI audiovestibular tests.

RESULTS: Main final diagnoses were post-CI secondary endolymphatic hydrops (48%) and exacerbation of existing Ménière's disease (29%). Symptomatic patients demonstrated high-velocity horizontal ictal-nystagmus (SPV, 44.2°/s and 68.2°/s in post-CI secondary endolymphatic hydrop and Ménière's disease). Direction-changing nystagmus was observed in 80 and 75%. Two were diagnosed with presumed autoimmune inner ear disease (SPV, 6.6°/s and 172.9°/s). One patient was diagnosed with probable vestibular migraine (15.1°/s).VHIT gains were 0.80 ± 0.20 (lateral), 0.70 ± 0.17 (anterior), and 0.62 ± 0.27 (posterior) in the implanted ear, with abnormal values in 33, 35, and 35% of each canal. Bone-conducted cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials were asymmetric in 52 and 29% of patients (all lateralized to the implanted ear) with mean asymmetry ratios of 51.2 and 35.7%. Reversible reduction in vHIT gain was recorded in three acutely symptomatic patients.

CONCLUSION: High-velocity, direction-changing nystagmus time-locked with vertigo attacks may be observed in post-CI implant vertigo and may indicate endolymphatic hydrops. Fluctuating vHIT gain may be an additional marker of a recurrent peripheral vestibulopathy.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

2023

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

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Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology - 45(2023), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 65-74

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kwok, Belinda Y C [VerfasserIn]
Young, Allison S [VerfasserIn]
Kong, Jonathan H K [VerfasserIn]
Birman, Catherine S [VerfasserIn]
Flanagan, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Greenberg, Simon L [VerfasserIn]
Gibson, William P [VerfasserIn]
Argaet, Emma C [VerfasserIn]
Fratturo, Luke [VerfasserIn]
Pogson, Jacob M [VerfasserIn]
Taylor, Rachael L [VerfasserIn]
Rosengren, Sally M [VerfasserIn]
Halmagyi, G Michael [VerfasserIn]
Welgampola, Miriam S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 16.12.2023

Date Revised 16.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/MAO.0000000000004037

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NLM363462724