Subjective visual vertical with the bucket method in Brazilian healthy individuals.

Introduction: The capacity of a healthy individual to estimate the true vertical in relation to the Earth when a fluorescent line is aligned in a completely dark room is called the subjective visual vertical.

Objective: To evaluate subjective visual vertical using the bucket method in healthy Brazilian individuals.

Methods: Binocular subjective visual vertical was measured in 100 healthy volunteers, 50 females and 50 males.

Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials and digital vectoelectro-nystagmography's study in patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Introduction:  Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a very common vestibular disorder characterized by brief but intense attacks of rotatory vertigo triggered by simple rapid movement of the head. The integrity of the vestibular pathways can be assessed using tests such as digital vectoelectronystagmography (VENG) and vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP).

Aim:  This study aimed to determine the VEMP findings with respect to latency, amplitude, and waveform peak to peak and the results of the oculomotor and vestibular components of VENG in patients with BPPV.

Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU™) posturography in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Unlabelled: Posturography has been used in the evaluation of patients with vestibular disorders.

Aim: To evaluate balance control with the Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU™) posturography in patients with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

Study Design: Prospective case-control.

Posturography with virtual reality stimulations in normal young adults with no balance complaints.

Purpose: To analyze the findings of posturography with virtual reality stimuli carried out in young healthy adults with no otoneurological complaints, based on the parameters center of pressure, limit of stability and sway speed for different visual stimuli, and regarding differences between female and male genders.

Methods: Participants were 50 healthy individuals of both genders (50% female and 50% male) with ages ranging from 18 to 25 years (mean age 21.30 years), with no complaints regarding body balance, and with vestibular outcomes assessed through digital vectonistagmography within normal limits.

Betahistine in the treatment of tinnitus in patients with vestibular disorders.

Unlabelled: Betahistine is a medicine used to treat vestibular disorders that has also been used to treat tinnitus.

Aim: To assess the effects of betahistine on tinnitus in patients with vestibular disorders.

Material And Method: Retrospective data were collected from patient records for individuals presenting with vestibular dysfunction and tinnitus.

Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU™) posturography in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To evaluate balance control with Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU™) posturography in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Method: A cross controlled study was performed including 39 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients with scores less than or equal to 4 in the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), and a homogeneous control group consisting of 65 healthy individuals, matched by the age and gender. The experimental group was distributed according to the EDSS scale scores in 0-2.

Comparison of different protocols for vestibular rehabilitation in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders.

Purpose: To compare the therapeutic efficacy of two protocols for vestibular rehabilitation in several vestibular disordes.

Methods: Twenty patients with chronic peripheral disorders of both genders (prevalence of females, with 60% of the sample) and mean age of 55 years and 9 months participated in this study. Group 1 carried out exercices based on stimulation of vertical and horizontal vestibulocular reflex, and Group 2 carried out exercices based on a protocol of personalized vestibular rehabilitation.

Impact of dizziness on the life quality of elderly with chronic vestibulopathy.

Background: Dizziness impact on the quality of life (QoL) of elderly patients with chronic vestibular dysfunction.

Aim: To evaluate the association between the impact of dizziness on the QoL of elderly patients with chronic vestibular dysfunction and demographic and clinical variables.

Method: A prospective study.

Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU) posturography in Menière's disease.

Unlabelled: Posturography has been used in the evaluation of patients with vestibular disorders.

Aim: To evaluate balance control with the Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU) posturography in patients with Menière's disease.

Study Design: Prospective case-control.

Elderly falls associated with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Unlabelled: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) can cause falls, especially in the elderly.

Aim: to study whether or not elderly patients with BPPV have a reduction on their falls after the particle repositioning maneuver (PRM).

Materials And Methods: retrospective study including elderly with BPPV who had fall(s) during the last year.

Active head rotation in benign positional paroxysmal vertigo.

Unlabelled: Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common vestibular diseases and the active head rotation test one of the most modern methods of vestibular function assessment.

Aim: this study aims to verify if the active head rotation test may reveal signs of horizontal and/or vertical vestibulo-ocular reflex dysfunction in vertigo patients suspected for BPPV.

Study Design: retrospective series study.

Clinical features of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Unlabelled: Benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV) is considered as the most common vestibular disease.

Aim: to evaluate the age, gender, type and site of the lesion, association with other vestibular diseases, progression, and recurrence in these patients.

Material And Method: A retrospective series study.

Quality of life of individuals submitted to vestibular rehabilitation.

Unlabelled: Balance disorders affect social, family and professional activities. Vestibular rehabilitation can reduce the impact of these disorders on the quality of life of individuals with vertigo.

Aim: to study the influence of vestibular rehabilitation on the quality of life of individuals, correlating it with gender, age, results from computerized vectoelectronystagmography and vertigo.

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: concomitant involvement of different semicircular canals.

Objectives: We evaluated the simultaneous ipsilateral or contralateral involvement of the posterior and lateral, anterior and lateral, or posterior and anterior semicircular canals in patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV).

Methods: The files of 2345 patients with BPPV were analyzed.

Results: Single-canal BPPV occurred in 2310 cases (98.

Epley's maneuver in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo associated with Meniere's disease.

Unlabelled: The effects of Epley's maneuver in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) associated with Menière's disease are controversial.

Aims: To evaluate the progression of positional vertigo and nystagmus after one or more of Epley's maneuvers in BPPV associated with Menière's disease, and the recurrence of BPPV.

Method: a retrospective study of 62 patients with BPPV associated with Menière's disease, that underwent Epley's maneuver, and that were monitored during 12 months after elimination of positional nystagmus.

Optimizing the pharmacological component of integrated balance therapy.

Unlabelled: Drug treatment is an important option for the treatment of peripheral vestibular diseases.

Aim: To identify the drug component associated with optimal integrated balance therapy (IBT) for Ménières disease or other peripheral vestibular disorders.

Materials And Methods: Analysis of a series of patients with Ménières disease patients or patients with other peripheral vestibular disorders that received IBT involving either no medication or betahistine, cinnarizine, clonazepam, flunarizine or Ginkgo biloba during 120 days.

Oculomotor evaluation in patients with peripheral vestibular dysfunction.

Aim: To assess whether or not the parameters of fixed and randomized saccadic movements, of pendular tracking and of optokinetic nystagmus in the digital vectonystagmography may show abnormalities in patients with possible diagnosis of peripheral vestibular dysfunction.

Method: 60 patients with dizziness of peripheral vestibular origin, from 12 to 82 years of age, males and females, were evaluated in the Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Ocular movement parameter findings were compared to a normal pattern.

[Signs and symptoms associated to otoneurologic alterations diagnosed on computerized vestibular exam of patients with multiple sclerosis].

Objective: To identify main symptoms and signs on computerized vestibular testing in patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Method: Thirty patients with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis were studied. We analyzed data related to presented symptoms and the findings from a computerized vestibular testing realized in the otoneurological ambulatory in Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo in 2003.

Clonazepam in the pharmacological treatment of vertigo and tinnitus.

We carried out a retrospective survey of 25 years of clinical experience with the use of clonazepam as a vestibular and tinnitus suppressant in the pharmacological treatment of vestibular or cochleovestibular disorders due to different causes. We reviewed the medical records of 3,357 outpatients treated with a 0.5 or 1.