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Published on: April 18, 2019
Peripheral Vestibulopathy Presenting as Acute Vertigo and Spontaneous Nystagmus with Negative Video Head Impulse Test
Jung-Yup Lee1, Chang-Hee Kim2, Jin Su Park1
11 Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Objective:
To analyze acute vertigo showing spontaneous nystagmus with negative video head impulse test (vHIT).
Study Design:
Retrospective chart analysis.
Setting:
Tertiary referral hospital.
Subjects And Methods:
Over 16 months, 155 patients were identified with acute vertigo with spontaneous nystagmus. Of these 155, 30 (19.4%) were enrolled in this study because they did not show gain loss or catch-up saccades in both sides of the horizontal vHIT. Results of vestibular function tests (videonystagmography, horizontal vHIT, caloric test, and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential [cVEMP]) and pure tone audiometry were analyzed. For all cases, magnetic resonance imaging with diffusion-weighted imaging was checked.
Results:
Patients consisted of 17 with Ménière's disease and 7 with sudden sensorineural hearing loss with vertigo (SSNHL_V), and only 3 patients were finally diagnosed as having acute vascular stroke. Except for the loss of hearing on the lesion side, the direction of nystagmus or cVEMP asymmetry showed very different results. All 7 patients with SSNHL_V did not have canal paresis in the caloric test, but cVEMP amplitude was smaller on the lesion side for 6 patients.
Conclusions:
For patients with acute vertigo presenting spontaneous nystagmus with negative horizontal vHIT, it is important not only to focus on the diagnosis of acute vascular stroke but also to evaluate hearing because of the high possibility of Ménière's disease or SSNHL_V.
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