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NEUROLOGY
Volume 73, Issue 14, Pages 1134-1141Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181bacf85
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNJ04HF51G, NNJ04HD66G]
- National Space Biomedical Research Institute [NNJ07ZSA002N, SM00801]
- European Space Agency
- Australian Research Council [DP0665402]
- Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation [2009, L2907 R6934]
- National Health and Medical Research Council [457511, 509206]
- Australian Research Council [DP0665402] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Background: The head impulse test (HIT) is a useful bedside test to identify peripheral vestibular deficits. However, such a deficit of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) may not be diagnosed because corrective saccades cannot always be detected by simple observation. The scleral search coil technique is the gold standard for HIT measurements, but it is not practical for routine testing or for acute patients, because they are required to wear an uncomfortable contact lens. Objective: To develop an easy-to-use video HIT system (vHIT) as a clinical tool for identifying peripheral vestibular deficits. To validate the diagnostic accuracy of vHIT by simultaneous measures with video and search coil recordings across healthy subjects and patients with a wide range of previously identified peripheral vestibular deficits. Methods: Horizontal HIT was recorded simultaneously with vHIT (250 Hz) and search coils (1,000 Hz) in 8 normal subjects, 6 patients with vestibular neuritis, 1 patient after unilateral intratympanic gentamicin, and 1 patient with bilateral gentamicin vestibulotoxicity. Results: Simultaneous video and search coil recordings of eye movements were closely comparable (average concordance correlation coefficient r(c) = 0.930). Mean VOR gains measured with search coils and video were not significantly different in normal (p = 0.107) and patients (p = 0.073). With these groups, the sensitivity and specificity of both the reference and index test were 1.0 (95% confidence interval 0.69-1.0). vHIT measures detected both overt and covert saccades as accurately as coils. Conclusions: The video head impulse test is equivalent to search coils in identifying peripheral vestibular deficits but easier to use in clinics, even in patients with acute vestibular neuritis. Neurology (R) 2009; 73: 1134-1141
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