The Clinical Utility of Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Patients of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

Context: Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP) is an emerging tool to diagnose Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). The clinical utility of VEMP has been reported only in small accord in Indian literature.

Aim: To study the latency and amplitude of VEMP in patients with BPPV and compare it with that of normal subjects.

Changing trends in bacteriology of peritonsillar abscess.

Objectives: To evaluate the type of aerobic bacteria commonly isolated from peritonsillar abscesses.

Study Design: A retrospective study involving 60 patients presenting with peritonsillar abscess treated between 2003 and 2006.

Setting: The patients were treated in a tertiary care, teaching hospital.

[Bartter's syndrome in children and adults. Study of 6 cases].

Six patients (3 children and 3 adults) with the clinical and biochemical features of Bartter's syndrome are presented. Pediatric cases included a more severe form, in one patient, with physical and mental retardation, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis, and a less severe one, including two patients, with milder clinical features, low calcium and high magnesium excretion and hypomagnesiemia. Adult patients were affected by either the mild congenital form (case n.