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. 2018 Jun;275(6):1507-1512.
doi: 10.1007/s00405-018-4981-9. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: evaluation of the vestibular system with cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials

Giuseppe Magliulo  1 , Giannicola Iannella  2 , Alessandra Manno  2 , Laura Libonati  3 , Emanuela Onesti  3 , Annarita Vestri  4 , Danilo Alunni Fegatelli  4 , Diletta Angeletti  2 , Annalisa Pace  2 , Giampiero Gulotta  2 , Silvia Gagliardi  2 , Maurizio Inghilleri  3
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: evaluation of the vestibular system with cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials

Giuseppe Magliulo et al. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2018 Jun.

Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the possibility of vestibular damage in a group of patients suffering from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) using a diagnostic protocol including the caloric test, C-VEMPs and O-VEMPs.

Methods: Twenty patients suffering from CIDP (mean age 58.5 years, range 33-80 years; 4 women and 16 men) were investigated. To assess any eventual audio-vestibular involvement, all patients of the study underwent pure tone audiometry, Fitzgerald-Hallpike caloric vestibular test, C-VEMPs and O-VEMPs.

Results: In 11 patients with CIDP values of both O-VEMPs and C-VEMPs were either absent or abnormal. An absent trace at O-VEMPs testing occurred in 36% of these pathological patients, whereas an increase of n10 latency and amplitude was present in the other 64% .

Conclusions: A specific diagnostic protocol including the caloric test, C-VEMPS, O-VEMPS, could be useful when employed for identifying vestibular damage in CIDP patients.

Keywords: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; VEMPs; Vertigo; Vestibular dysfunction.

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