ArticleFrontiers in neuroanatomy2015
7-Tesla MRI demonstrates absence of structural lesions in patients with vestibular paroxysmia.
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- Vestibular paroxysmia: a systematic review.Journal of neurology · 2025Pooled it
- A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial (Vestparoxy) of the treatment of vestibular paroxysmia with oxcarbazepine.Journal of neurology · 2018Trial
- Sodium Channel Blockers for Vestibular Paroxysmia in Children.Audiology research · 2025Review
- Vestibular Paroxysmia with Neurovascular Cross Compression and Antiepileptic Drugs: A Systematic Review and Discussion of Physiopathology.Audiology research · 2025Review
- Medical Management of the Near-Narrowed Internal Auditory Canal Pathology in the Adult Population: A Preliminary Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Vestibular paroxysmia: clinical characteristics and long-term course.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Recent advances in MRI of the head and neck, skull base and cranial nerves: new and evolving sequences, analyses and clinical applications.The British journal of radiology · 2019Review
- Therapy of Vestibular Paroxysmia, Superior Oblique Myokymia, and Ocular Neuromyotonia.Current treatment options in neurology · 2016Review
- Vestibular paroxysmia: a treatable neurovascular cross-compression syndrome.Journal of neurology · 2016Review
- Vestibular paroxysmia: Diagnostic criteria.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2016Article
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Abstract
Vestibular parxoysmia (VP) is a rare vestibular disorder. A neurovascular cross-compression (NVCC) between the vestibulochochlear nerve and an artery seems to be responsible for short attacks of vertigo in this entity. An NVCC can be seen in up to every fourth subject. The significance of these findings is not clear, as not all subjects suffer from symptoms. The aim of the present study was to assess possible structural lesions of the vestibulocochlear nerve by means of high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and whether high field MRI may help to differentiate symptomatic from asymptomatic subjects. 7 Tesla MRI was performed in six patients with VP and confirmed NVCC seen on 1.5 and 3.0 MRI. No structural abnormalities were detected in any of the patients in 7 Tesla MRI. These findings imply that high field MRI does not help to differentiate between symptomatic and asymptomatic NVCC and that the symptoms of VP are not caused by structural nerve lesions. This supports the hypothesis that the nystagmus associated with VP has to be conceived pathophysiologically as an excitatory vestibular phenomenon, being not related to vestibular hypofunction. 7 Tesla MRI outperforms conventional MRI in image resolution and may be useful in vestibular disorders.
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