Table 4.
Vestibular testing of horizontal canal (caloric testing), saccular [cervical ocular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP)], and utricular [ocular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMP)] function as well as subjective impairment, measured by the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI), before and 3 months after surgical intervention.
| P | Caloric |
cVEMP |
oVEMP |
DHI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before |
After 3 months |
Before |
After 3 months |
Before |
After 3 months |
Before | After 3 months | |||||||||||||||||||
| Max. SPV (°/s) | AR (%) | Max. SPV (°/s) | AR (%) | Max. Amp. (µV) | AR (%) | Max. Amp. (µV) | AR (%) | Max. Amp. (µV) | AR (%) | Max. Amp. (µV) | AR (%) | |||||||||||||||
| r | l | r | l | r | l | r | l | r | l | r | l | p | e | f | t | p | e | f | t | |||||||
| 1 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 2 | nr | nr | nr | 95 | 163 | 26 | 28 | 29 | 2 | 144 | 116 | 11 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 3 | 11 | 54 | 7 | 21 | 50 | 442 | 268 | 25 | 33 | 31 | 3 | 39 | 29 | 15 | md | md | md | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 15 | 8 | 28 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 69 | 83 | 9 | 33 | 39 | 8 | 27 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 19 | 84 | 57 | 19 | 89 | 150 | 26 | 31 | 18 | 27 | 53 | 62 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 23 | 28 | 10 | md | md | md | 38 | 50 | 14 | md | md | md | 45 | 32 | 17 | md | md | md | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | 30 | 27 | 5 | md | md | md | 50 | 54 | 4 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 15 | 8 | 32 | 19 | 5 | 57 | 61 | 118 | 32 | 28 | 54 | 32 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 33 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 28 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 22 |
| 8 | 37 | 38 | 1 | 41 | 41 | 1 | md | md | md | 53 | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md | md |
| 9 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 144 | 67 | 36 | 35 | 32 | 4 | 43 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 30 |
| 10 | 36 | 28 | 13 | 37 | 28 | 15 | 294 | 215 | 16 | 96 | 121 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 42 | md | md | md | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pathological values as described in the Section “Materials and Methods” have a gray background.
P, patient number; Max. SPV, maximal slow phase velocity; AR, asymmetry ratio; r, right; l, left; p, physical subscale of the DHI; e, emotional subscale of the DHI; f, functional subscale of the DHI; t, total DHI; md, missing data; nr, not reproducible.