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. 2024 Jan-Feb;45(1):207-218.
doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001416. Epub 2023 Aug 15.

Chirp-Evoked VEMPs: A Test-Retest Reliability Study

Tarryn Marisca Reddy  1 , Barbara Heinze  2 , Leigh Biagio-de Jager  1 , Leen Maes  3   4
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Chirp-Evoked VEMPs: A Test-Retest Reliability Study

Tarryn Marisca Reddy et al. Ear Hear. 2024 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Objectives: To determine the test-retest reliability of cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (c&oVEMP) evoked by 500 Hz narrowband (NB) CE-Chirp and broadband (BB) CE-Chirp stimuli.

Design: Twenty healthy participants (10 female) were tested twice on the same day to determine the within-session reliability and 1 week later to determine the between-session reliability. The latency, amplitude, and asymmetry ratio of c&oVEMPs elicited by 95 dB nHL air-conducted (AC) 500 Hz NB CE-Chirp and BB CE-Chirp were recorded bilaterally.

Results: A moderate to good between-session reliability with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values ranging from 0.52 to 0.82 was observed for cVEMP latency, amplitude, and asymmetry ratio evoked by 500 Hz NB CE-Chirp, as well as for the BB CE-Chirp cVEMP amplitude (ICC of 0.70 and 0.84). In contrast, an overall poor reliability ICC values between 0.30 and 0.42 for cVEMP latency and asymmetry ratio were observed for BB CE-Chirp. For the oVEMP, overall poor between-session reliability for all response parameters evoked by the 500 Hz NB CE-Chirp and the BB CE-Chirp was observed.

Conclusions: The 500 Hz NB CE-Chirp was more reliable than the BB CE-Chirp in terms of cVEMP latency, amplitude, and asymmetry ratio. Further investigation using the standard electrode montage is necessary to assess the test-retest reliability of the chirp-evoked oVEMP.

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