UNLABELLED Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) have been used in complementary otoneurological assessment, but the use of VEMP in clinical settings is limited. VEMPs can be used to assess vestibular function, particularly of the saccule, the inferior vestibular nerve, and/or the vestibular nucleus. OBJECTIVE To verify the highest possible - and reliable - stimulation rate to obtain V...

The stepping test is a dynamic equilibrium function that evaluates the rotation angle, transition distance, and presence of abnormal body sway during 50 or 100 steps taken in same position with eyes closed. Although this widely used as part evaluation function, previous studies have reported deviated side was not correlated impaired caloric test. In study, we evaluated correlation between resul...

AIM To investigate differences in vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) results with patients suffering from vestibular migraine and healthy people, taking into consideration values of threshold and latency of occurrence of the characteristic wave complex, size of amplitude, and interaural amplitude ratio. According to the results, determine the importance and usefulness of VEMP in vesti...

The hallmark of vitiligo is the disappearance of melanocytes from the skin. As a result, of melanocytes presence in the auditory and vestibular apparatus, the involvement of these systems in vitiligo which targets the melanocytes of the whole body is possible; suggesting that vitiligo is a systemic disease rather than a purely cutaneous problem. A total of 21 patients with vitiligo were enrolle...

INTRODUCTION Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease involving the occurrence of demyelinating, chronic neurodegenerative lesions in the central nervous system. We studied vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) in this pathology, to allow us to evaluate the saccule, inferior vestibular nerve and vestibular-spinal pathway non-invasively. METHODS There were 23 patients diagnosed wi...

The human saccule has preserved the ancestral ability to respond to high-intensity acoustic stimulations, generating a contraction reflex of the cervical tract muscles. Recording the muscular bioelectric potentials following saccular stimulation allows the evidence of the vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs). The aim of this study was to record VEMPs in alert and anesthetized guinea pi...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune systemic disease. Most common autoimmune diseases are multisystem disorders that may also present with otological manifestations, and autoimmune inner ear disease accompanied by vestibular dysfunction. This study aimed to compare the vestibular function between RA patients and normal subjects using cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potenti...

Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) are short-latency electromyograms evoked by high-level acoustic stimuli recorded from surface electrodes over the tonically contracted sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle. These responses are presumed to originate in the saccule. The purpose of this preliminary report is to provide an overview of our initial experience with the VEMP by describing the r...