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Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction
Advances in vestibular testing have now allowed us to test each semicircular canal as well as the utricle and saccule, independently. This has led to the discovery of new patterns of vestibular dysfunction that were once impossible to evaluate. This report describes the case of a 20-year-old woman w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867738 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.753433 |
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author | Waissbluth, Sofia Oyarzún, Javier |
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description | Advances in vestibular testing have now allowed us to test each semicircular canal as well as the utricle and saccule, independently. This has led to the discovery of new patterns of vestibular dysfunction that were once impossible to evaluate. This report describes the case of a 20-year-old woman with a 2-month history of recurrent dizziness. She had a complete audiovestibular assessment. The only abnormality observed was the absence of a cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential response for the right side, hence an isolated saccular dysfunction. In conclusion, isolated otolithic dysfunction is probably an overlooked and neglected clinical presentation. Its true incidence is unknown, and further research is needed to understand this clinical entity. |
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spelling | pubmed-86342612021-12-02 Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction Waissbluth, Sofia Oyarzún, Javier Front Neurol Neurology Advances in vestibular testing have now allowed us to test each semicircular canal as well as the utricle and saccule, independently. This has led to the discovery of new patterns of vestibular dysfunction that were once impossible to evaluate. This report describes the case of a 20-year-old woman with a 2-month history of recurrent dizziness. She had a complete audiovestibular assessment. The only abnormality observed was the absence of a cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential response for the right side, hence an isolated saccular dysfunction. In conclusion, isolated otolithic dysfunction is probably an overlooked and neglected clinical presentation. Its true incidence is unknown, and further research is needed to understand this clinical entity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8634261/ /pubmed/34867738 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.753433 Text en Copyright © 2021 Waissbluth and Oyarzún. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neurology Waissbluth, Sofia Oyarzún, Javier Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title | Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title_full | Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title_fullStr | Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title_full_unstemmed | Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title_short | Case Report: Isolated Idiopathic Saccular Dysfunction |
title_sort | case report: isolated idiopathic saccular dysfunction |
topic | Neurology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634261/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34867738 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.753433 |
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