Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential abnormalities in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait

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BACKGROUND: Vestibular dysfunction is closely associated with the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) accompanied by freezing of gait (FOG); however, evidence supporting this clinical association is lacking. Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) have been widely acknowledged as a crucial electrophysiological parameter in the clinical evaluation of vestibular function.

OBJECTIVE: The present study investigated the possible correlation of FOG occurrence with VEMP observations in patients diagnosed with PD.

METHODS: Altogether, 95 idiopathic PD patients were recruited into the present cross-sectional study. All patients underwent motor and non-motor assessments using serial scales. In addition, the electrophysiological vestibular evaluation was conducted, which included cervical (cVEMP) and ocular VEMP (oVEMP) assessments. Furthermore, the correlations of bilateral c/oVEMP absence with clinical phenotypes, especially FOG, among the PD patients were analyzed.

RESULTS: Among the 95 patients with PD, 44 (46.3%) had bilateral oVEMP absence and 23 (24.2%) had bilateral cVEMP absence, respectively. The proportions of patients with bilateral oVEMP absence (77.8% vs 30.9%, p = 0.004) and bilateral cVEMP absence (44.4% vs 19.5%, p = 0.035) were higher in the patient group exhibiting FOG than in the group without FOG. Following the adjustment of confounding variables, bilateral oVEMP absence (OR = 8.544, p = 0.007), rather than bilateral cVEMP absence, was shown to independently predict FOG occurrence in patients with PD.

CONCLUSION: The close correlation between bilateral oVEMP absence and FOG in PD patients sheds new light on the possible role of central vestibular/upper brainstem dysfunction in FOG development in patients with PD.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Journal of neurology - (2024) vom: 27. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiang, Yuhan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Mengxi [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Haibin [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yajing [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Li [VerfasserIn]
He, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jianren [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Freezing of gait
Journal Article
Parkinson’s disease
Vestibular dysfunction
Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential

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Date Revised 28.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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doi:

10.1007/s00415-024-12311-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370283201