The Role of Frequency Complementarities of Vestibular Tests in the Evaluation of Vestibular Function
10.3969/j.issn.0253-9896.2009.07.015
- VernacularTitle:前庭试验技术的频率互补性在前庭功能评估中的作用
- Author:
Na WANG
;
Peng LIN
;
Taisheng CHEN
;
Wei SONG
;
Shiping SUN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
caloric tests;
vestibular function tests;
nystagmus,pathologic;
vertigo;
vestibular diseases
- From:
Tianjin Medical Journal
2009;37(7):571-573
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To analyze the role of frequency complemcntarities of vestibular tests including caloric test (CT),head shaking test(HST),and vibration test(VT) in the evaluation of vestibular function. Methods: Five hundreds and eightyfour patients with unilateral peripheral lesions were tested with CT, HST and VT in order to compare the frequency characteristic of abnormal vestibular function. Results: Of the 584 patients, 189 (32.36%), 283 (48.46%) and 368 (63.01%)cases showed vibration-induced nystagmus (VIN), head shaking nystagnms (HSN) and abnormal unilateral weakness (UW)respectively. There were 22 isolated VIN, 52 HSN and 145 cases of abnormal UW respectively. One hundred and fifty-nine (27.23%) cases had combination damage of two frequency bands, 101 (17.29%) had vestibular damage at all frequency bands,479 (82.02%) had abnormal results in any of the three tests, and 105 (17.98%) had no abnormality in all those three tests.Through consistency test, CT and HST (Kappa=0.106, P＜ 0.05), CT and VT(Kappa=0.068, P＜ 0.05), VT and HST (Kappa=0.321, P＜0.05) showed low consistency among them. VIN and HSN were more hkely to be evoked with the increasing of the UW (X'2VIN=22.686,X2HSN=23.023, P＜ 0.05). Conclusion: The vestibular damage in the patients with vertigo could reflect at isolated low, middle, high frequency or multi frequency bands. Thus, CT, HST and VT all make significant contributions to multiple-frequency analysis of vestibular function and show a well complementarities. So they can be used in evaluating the overall function of the vestibular and indicating a serious vestibular lesion if the damage affected multi frequency bands.
