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7-Tesla MRI demonstrates absence of structural lesions in patients with vestibular paroxysmia

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Title
7-Tesla MRI demonstrates absence of structural lesions in patients with vestibular paroxysmia
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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, June 2015
DOI 10.3389/fnana.2015.00081
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Paulus S. Rommer, Gerald Wiest, Claudia Kronnerwetter, Heidemarie Zach, Benjamin Loader, Kirsten Elwischger, Siegfried Trattnig

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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Korea, Republic of 1 4%
Austria 1 4%
Unknown 26 93%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 18%
Other 4 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 11%
Professor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 7 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 46%
Neuroscience 5 18%
Chemistry 1 4%
Social Sciences 1 4%
Unknown 8 29%
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