ORIGINAL ARTICLE
CERVICAL AND OCULAR VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS IN MIGRAINE PATIENTS
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Audio-Vestibular Unit, Department of Otolaryngology,, Kasr-Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt., Egypt
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Neurology Department,, Kasr-Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt., Egypt
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Audio-vestibular Unit, Department of Otolaryngology,, Suez-Canal University, Egypt, Egypt
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article;
Publication date: 2021-08-31
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Abeir Osman Dabbous
Audio-Vestibular Unit, Department of Otolaryngology,, Kasr-Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt., Cairo University, 12211, Cairo, Egypt
J Hear Sci 2021;11(2):59–68
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Background:
In migraine, there is no anatomical correlate of vertigo and no structural abnormality is evident in conventional imaging. Cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) is an uncrossed inhibitory vestibulo-spinal reflex (VSR), while ocular VEMP (oVEMP) represents a crossed excitatory vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR).
Objective:
This study aims at functional evaluation of the findings of cVEMP and oVEMP in migraine patients.
Material and methods:
This was a cross-sectional case-control study that included 20 migraine patients as the case group and 30 healthy adult subjects as a control group. All participants were subjected to history taking, otological examination, basic audiological evaluation, bedside examination of the dizzy patient, cVEMP, oVEMP, and posturography tests.
Results:
35% of migraine patients showed delayed cVEMP latency and 40% showed abnormal oVEMP in the form of statistically significant delayed right oVEMP P1 (p = 0.050) and left oVEMP N1 latency (p = 0.038) compared with controls. cVEMP parameters were not correlated to posturography results. The majority of migraine patients (70%) had normal equilibrium pattern and normal sensory analyses ratios (65%). Only 30% had vestibular dysfunction.
Conclusions:
VSR and VOR are affected in migraine patients. We recommend the use of cVEMP and oVEMP in migraine patients for functional assessment of brainstem pathways.