Vestibular Neuritis

The video head impulse test

“…Six patients with VN (mean 52 years, age range 38 -59 years, 1 female) showed evidence of enduring unilateral loss of vestibular function after an illness with acute onset of prolonged rotational vertigo and postural imbalance associated with spontaneous nystagmus, nausea, or vomiting that fulfilled the clinical criteria of VN. 12 One patient with Ménière disease (53 years, female) with a unilateral vestibular deficit due to intratympanic gentamicin injection and a patient with bilateral vestibular loss due to systemic gentamicin vestibulotoxicity (72 years, male) were also tested. Eight healthy subjects without any history, symptoms, or clinical signs of vestibular disease (mean 35 years, age range 25-66 years, 2 females) served as controls.…”