Publications by authors named "Kathrin Skorpa Nilsen"
Objective: The video head impulse test (vHIT) and cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP and oVEMP) are new methods for measuring peripheral vestibular function. The objectives of this study were to compare these tests and the traditionally used caloric test in patients with small and medium-sized untreated vestibular schwannoma (VS) and to measure the correlation between the tests' results and tumor volume.
Study Design: National cross-sectional study.
Background: One in three vestibular schwannomas (VS) will grow within 3 years after diagnosis, but no reliable baseline parameter has been found to predict such growth.
Objective: To determine if postural sway is associated with growth of untreated VS.
Methods: Patients with newly diagnosed sporadic VS assigned to a wait-and-scan protocol were identified from a prospectively maintained database.
Objectives: To study the development of dizziness, caloric function, and postural sway during long-term observation of untreated vestibular schwannoma patients.
Study Design: Retrospective review of a prospectively maintained longitudinal cohort.
Setting: Tertiary referral hospital.
Objectives: Previous studies have shown that vertigo is the most powerful negative predictor of quality of life in patients with vestibular schwannomas, but the variability in vertigo symptom severity is still poorly understood. We wanted to find out whether vertigo could be related to objective parameters such as tumor size, location, vestibular nerve function, hearing, and postural stability in patients with untreated vestibular schwannomas.
Study Design: Baseline data from prospective cohort study.