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Vertical saccades during horizontal head impulses: a sign of posterior semicircular canal hypofunction.
Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica 2024 May 4
OBJECTIVE: We describe an uncharacteristic vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) pattern, studied by video head impulse tests (VHIT) in patients suffering from unilateral isolated posterior semicircular canal (PSC) hypofunction. In these patients, we found an upward sliding of the eyes, followed by an oblique downward catch-up saccade during horizontal head impulse to the healthy side.
METHODS: We present a retrospective study of all VHIT exams presenting isolated PSC hypofunction between May 2020 and November 2022.
RESULTS: We found 37 patients, which led to the discovery of such incongruent eye movement in 19 cases; their gain data are shown and compared to the remaining 18 cases in which such an anomaly was absent. A control group of 31 healthy subjects was recruited to define the reference criteria for VHIT gain values. The correlation between the amplitude of the vertical saccade and the relative functional imbalance of the vertical semicircular canals was studied.
CONCLUSIONS: We have observed that in approximately half of the subjects with isolated CSP deficiency, there is a VOR anomaly. A possible pathophysiological explanation of the unbalanced effect of vertical semicircular canal stimulation of a labyrinth during horizontal head thrust toward the opposite side is proposed. The planar incongruity of the response of the VOR described here appears more evident at the onset of the CSP deficit. Current VHIT systems do not detect this incongruent eye reflex. They can lead to an error in gain evaluation (pseudo-deficit) of the lateral semicircular canal of the healthy side and problems in performing the test (trace rejected). In the future, software for VHIT should take into account the possibility of non-coplanar ocular responses to cephalic stimuli.
METHODS: We present a retrospective study of all VHIT exams presenting isolated PSC hypofunction between May 2020 and November 2022.
RESULTS: We found 37 patients, which led to the discovery of such incongruent eye movement in 19 cases; their gain data are shown and compared to the remaining 18 cases in which such an anomaly was absent. A control group of 31 healthy subjects was recruited to define the reference criteria for VHIT gain values. The correlation between the amplitude of the vertical saccade and the relative functional imbalance of the vertical semicircular canals was studied.
CONCLUSIONS: We have observed that in approximately half of the subjects with isolated CSP deficiency, there is a VOR anomaly. A possible pathophysiological explanation of the unbalanced effect of vertical semicircular canal stimulation of a labyrinth during horizontal head thrust toward the opposite side is proposed. The planar incongruity of the response of the VOR described here appears more evident at the onset of the CSP deficit. Current VHIT systems do not detect this incongruent eye reflex. They can lead to an error in gain evaluation (pseudo-deficit) of the lateral semicircular canal of the healthy side and problems in performing the test (trace rejected). In the future, software for VHIT should take into account the possibility of non-coplanar ocular responses to cephalic stimuli.
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