Video head impulse test (vHIT) in migraine dizziness.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Migraine is an extremely prevalent primary headache disorder that frequently associates parallel symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus and hearing loss. Our aim is to investigate differences in video head impulse (vHIT) results with patients suffering from vestibular migraine (VM) and healthy people, taking into consideration mean values of vestibule ocular reflex (VOR) gain, occurrence of the compensatory saccades latency and amplitude. According to the results, determine the usefulness of vHIT in vestibular migraine diagnostics.

Methods

A total number of 120 subjects were enrolled in the study, 80 of them were vestibular migraine patients (VM), while the other 40 were a control group of age matched healthy subjects. History was taking during the eva

SUBMITTER: ElSherif M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291630 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature