Ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials induced by air-conducted sound in patients with acute brainstem lesions
- Authors
- Oh, Sun-Young; Kim, Ji Soo; Lee, Jong-Min; Shin, Byoung-Soo; Hwang, Seung-Bae; Kwak, Ki-Chang; Kim, Chanmi; Jeong, Seul-Ki; Kim, Tae-Woo
- Issue Date
- Apr-2013
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
- Keywords
- Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP); Ocular VEMPs (oVEMPs); Air-conducted sound (ACS); Otolith; Brainstem; Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO); Medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF); Crossed ventral tegmental tract (CVTT); Oculomotor nucleus
- Citation
- Clinical Neurophysiology, v.124, no.4, pp.770 - 778
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- Journal Title
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- Volume
- 124
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 770
- End Page
- 778
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/163063
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.09.026
- ISSN
- 1388-2457
- Abstract
- Objective: The ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP), a recently documented otolith-ocular reflex, is considered to reflect the central projections of the primary otolithic afferent fibers to the oculomotor nuclei. The aim of our study is to define air-conducted sound oVEMP abnormality in patients with acute brainstem lesions and to determine the brainstem structures involved in the generation of oVEMPs.
Methods: In response to air-conducted tone burst sounds (ACS), oVEMP was measured in 52 patients with acute brainstem lesions. Individualized brainstem lesions were analyzed by means of MRI-based voxel-wise lesion-behavior mapping, and the probabilistic lesion maps were constructed.
Results: More than half (n = 28, 53.8%) of the patients with acute brainstem lesions showed abnormal oVEMP in response to ACS. The majority of patients with abnormal oVEMPs had lesions in the dorsomedial brainstem that contains the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF), the crossed ventral tegmental tract (CVTT), and the oculomotor nuclei and nerves.
Conclusion: MLF, CVTT, and the oculomotor nuclei and nerves appear to be responsible for otolith-ocular responses in the brainstem.
Significance: Complemented to cervical VEMP for the uncrossed otolith-spinal function, oVEMP to ACS may be applied to evaluate the crossed otolith-ocular function in central vestibulopathies.
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