Residual vestibular function after vestibular schwannoma surgery.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess vestibular function in 39 patients who underwent neurectomy for vestibular schwannoma.

Method: Semicircular canal reactivity was measured by video head-impulse test using high-frequency passive head acceleration. Response gain was calculated as a ratio between the areas under the eye-velocity curve and the head-velocity curve.

Assessment of visual sensation, psychiatric profile and quality of life following vestibular schwannoma surgery in patients prehabituated by chemical vestibular ablation.

Aims: Preoperative chemical vestibular ablation can reduce vestibular symptoms in patients who have gone through vestibular schwannoma resection. The goal of this study was to determine whether chemical vestibular prehabituation influences the patients' post-operative perception of visual stimulation, mental status and quality of life. We also tried to find out whether increases of optokinetic nystagmus, measured by routine electronystagmography, correlate with subjective symptoms.

Moderate sensorineural hearing loss is typical for DFNB16 caused by various types of mutations affecting the STRC gene.

Introduction: Hearing loss is the most frequent sensory disorder and is genetically extremely heterogeneous. By far the most frequent cause of nonsyndromic autosomal recessive hearing loss (AR-NSHL) are biallelic pathogenic mutations in the GJB2 gene causing DFNB1. The worldwide search for the second most common type of AR-NSHL took almost two decades.

The evaluation of vestibular compensation by vestibular rehabilitation and prehabilitation in short-term postsurgical period in patients following surgical treatment of vestibular schwannoma.

Purpose: Vestibular schwannoma removal causes unilateral vestibular deafferentation, which results in dizziness and postural unsteadiness. Vertigo and balance problems together are among the most important aspects affecting quality of life. Intensive vestibular rehabilitation, which starts before surgery, with following postsurgical supervised rehabilitation, using visual biofeedback propose an instrument to accelerate a recovery process.