The hvHIT recordings of 40 dizzy patients with left sided horizontal
canal VOR gains <0.8 were retrospectively re-evaluated for the
presence of RS. The study groups included 20 patients with a final
diagnosis of left horizontal semicircular canal vestibular dysfunction
(VD) secondary to vestibular neuritis, vestibular schwannoma and
unilateral intra-tympanic gentamicin-induced vestibulopathy and 20
patients for whom vestibular disease was ruled out (NVD). The diagnosis
of left vestibular disease was based on the cumulative data of the
patient’s history, bedside otoneurological examination findings,
videonystagmography caloric test results, vHIT findings and imaging
results. The NVD subjects had non-specific complaint of dizziness,
history that was not typical for vestibular disease, normal bed-side
otoneurological examination as well as videonystagmography and imaging
studies results. Also, no persistent postural perceptual dizziness
(PPPD) nor vestibular migraine cases were included in the NVD group. The
contribution of the VOR gain values, RS latency, frequency, and velocity
parameters towards the prediction of left vestibular dysfunction was
assessed.
The study protocol was approved, and an exempt was granted from informed
consent procedure by the institutional committee for human experiments
(identifying data removed to comply with the instruction to authors)