Saccadic entropy of head impulses in acute unilateral vestibular loss.

J Formos Med Assoc

Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Otolaryngology, Taipei City Hospital, Renai Branch, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Published: October 2017

Background/purpose: To evaluate the complexity of vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) in patients with acute unilateral vestibular loss (AUVL) via entropy analysis of head impulses.

Methods: Horizontal head impulse test (HIT) with high-velocity alternating directions was used to evaluate 12 participants with AUVL and 16 healthy volunteers. Wireless electro-oculography and electronic gyrometry were used to acquire eye positional signals and head velocity signals. The eye velocity signals were then obtained through differentiation, band-pass filtering. The approximate entropy of eye velocity to head velocity (R) was used to evaluate chaos property. VOR gain, gain asymmetry ratio, and R asymmetry ratio were also used to compare the groups.

Results: For the lesion-side HIT of the patient group, the mean VOR gain was significantly lower and the mean R was significantly greater compared with both nonlesion-side HIT and healthy controls (p < 0.01, one-way analysis of variance). Both the R asymmetry ratio and gain asymmetry ratio of the AUVL group were significantly greater compared with those of the control group (p < 0.05, independent sample t test).

Conclusion: Entropy and gain analysis of HIT using wireless electro-oculography system could be used to detect the VOR dysfunctions of AUVL and may become effective methods for evaluating vestibular disorders.

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