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Ishii M, Ishiyama G, Ishiyama A, Kato Y, Mochizuki F, Ito Y. Relationship Between the Onset of Ménière's Disease and Sympathetic Hyperactivity. Front Neurol 2022; 13:804777. [PMID: 35370896 PMCID: PMC8970286 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.804777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Objective The pathogenesis of Ménière's disease is still largely unknown; however, it is known to be strongly associated with stress. Excessive stress can cause hyperactivity of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system. With the aim of understanding changes in sympathetic hyperactivity before and after Ménière's disease, we compared autonomic nervous function in patients in a stable phase of Ménière's disease and that in healthy adults. We also gathered data over about 10 years on autonomic nervous function immediately before a Ménière's attack. Study Design Prospective study. Patients Autonomic nervous function was analyzed in 129 patients in a stable phase of Ménière's disease 31 healthy adult volunteers. In nine patients, autonomic nervous function was also measured immediately before and after treatment of a vertigo attack. Main Outcome Measure Power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) of EEG/ECG and an infrared electronic pupillometer were used. Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous function was measured. Results There were no statistically significant differences in autonomic nervous function determined by HRV and electronic pupillometry between patients in a stable phase of Ménière's disease and healthy adults. Sympathetic function as measured by electronic pupillometry parameters VD and T5 showed no difference between the affected and unaffected sides in the baseline data measured in the stable phase (VD: affected side is 31.02 ± 6.16 mm/sec, unaffected side is 29.25 ± 5.73 mm/sec; T5: affected side is 3.37 ± 0.43 msec, unaffected side is 3.25 ± 0.39 msec). In contrast, all nine patients whose HRV data had been obtained just before an attack showed marked suppression of the parasympathetic nervous system and activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Electronic pupillometry also revealed an overactivation of the sympathetic nervous system on the affected side, just before the attacks. Analysis of sequential changes after the onset of an attack revealed that overactivation on the affected side was reduced after treatment, and no difference between affected and unaffected sides was observed 3 days after treatment. Conclusion Detailed analysis of autonomic nervous function showed that immediately before an attack of Ménière's disease, the sympathetic nervous system on the affected side was strongly overactivated.
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- Masanori Ishii
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Japan Community Health Care Organization (JCHO) Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- *Correspondence: Masanori Ishii
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Head & Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
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Numata K, Shiga T, Omura K, Umibe A, Hiraoka E, Yamanaka S, Azuma H, Yamada Y, Kobayashi D. Comparison of acute vertigo diagnosis and treatment practices between otolaryngologists and non-otolaryngologists: A multicenter scenario-based survey. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213196. [PMID: 30845218 PMCID: PMC6405109 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Acute vertigo is a common problem in emergency departments. However, clinical strategies of acute vertigo care vary among care providers. The aim of the study was to investigate differences in diagnosis [Dix-Hallpike test, the head impulse, nystagmus, and the test of skew (HINTS) procedure, and imaging modalities] and treatment (pharmacological treatments and the Epley maneuver) by otolaryngologists and non-otolaryngologists in emergency medicine settings. We used a multicenter case-based survey for the study. Four clinical vignettes of acute vertigo (posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis, Meniere disease, and nonspecific vertigo) were used. Total 151 physicians from all study sites participated in the study. There were 84 non-otolaryngologists (48 emergency physicians and 36 internists) and 67 otolaryngologists. The multivariate analysis indicated that otolaryngologists ordered fewer CT scans (odds ratio (OR), 0.20; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.07-0.53) and performed fewer HINTS procedures (OR, 0.17; 95% CI, 0.06-0.46), but used the Dix-Hallpike method more often (OR, 2.36; 95% CI, 1.01-5.52) for diagnosis compared to non-otolaryngologists. For treatment, otolaryngologists were less likely to use the Epley method (OR, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.07-0.53) and metoclopramide (OR, 0.09; 95% CI, 0.01-0.97) and more likely to use sodium bicarbonate (OR, 20.50; 95% CI, 6.85-61.40) compared to non-otolaryngologists. We found significant differences in the acute vertigo care provided by non-otolaryngologists and otolaryngologists from a vignette-based research. To improve acute vertigo care, educational systems focusing on acute vertigo are needed.
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- Kenji Numata
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Todaijima, Urayasu city, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Mita hospital, Mita, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Minamikoshigaya, Koshigaya city, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of General Medicine, Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Todaijima, Urayasu city, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Matsuokashimoaizuki, Eiheiji-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Fukui prefectural hospital, Fukui, Fukui prefecture, Japan
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- Department of General Internal Medicine, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, higashigaoka, meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo Japan
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Kitahara T, Takeda N, Nishiike S, Okumura SI, Kubo T. Prognosis of Inner Ear Periphery and Central Vestibular Plasticity in Sudden Deafness with Vertigo. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 2016; 114:786-91. [PMID: 16285269 DOI: 10.1177/000348940511401008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objectives: We sought to elucidate the clinical problems and otopathology of patients with sudden deafness with vertigo (SDV). Methods: In 24 patients with SDV who had significant canal paresis (CP) at their first visit to our hospital between 1997 and 2001, we examined pure tone audiograms, caloric tests, and several questionnaires twice, at the first visit within 5 days after the onset and around 2 years after steroid therapy. Results: These examinations revealed that improvements of auditory and vestibular function in patients with SDV tended to be correlated with one another. Sixteen of the 24 patients (66.7%) still had CP. This rate in SDV was significantly worse than that reported previously for vestibular neuritis (VN). On the other hand, patients with SDV with long-lasting CP had a faster reduction of head-shaking afternystagmus and of handicaps in their everyday life due to dizziness than did patients with VN and CP. Conclusions: These findings suggest that SDV may deteriorate the inner ear function more severely but accelerate the central vestibular compensation more effectively than VN after the lesion. It is well known that vestibular neurectomy causes much more severe motion-induced dizziness after surgery than does labyrinthectomy. Taken together, these findings suggest different regions of damage in SDV (mainly the labyrinth, as in labyrinthectomy) and VN (mainly the ganglion, as in vestibular neurectomy).
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- Tadashi Kitahara
- Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University, School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan
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Ohara K, Inoue Y, Sumi Y, Morikawa M, Matsuda S, Okamoto K, Tanaka H. Oxidative stress and heart rate variability in patients with vertigo. Acute Med Surg 2014; 2:163-168. [PMID: 29123715 DOI: 10.1002/ams2.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2014] [Accepted: 10/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Aims Peripheral vertigo has been reported to result from oxidative stress or autonomic nervous dysfunction. Recently, heart rate variability has been used to evaluate autonomic nervous activity. Parasympathetic nervous dysfunction is associated with peripheral vertigo; however, the relationships between vertigo, oxidative stress, and autonomic nervous activity have not been investigated. The aim of this study was to elucidate the changes in oxidative stress and autonomic nervous activity in vertigo patients compared with healthy volunteers. Methods Oxidative stress was assessed by evaluating biological antioxidant potential and reactive oxygen metabolites, and heart rate variability was measured to evaluate autonomic nervous activity. Thirty-four patients who complained of peripheral vertigo and were treated in our emergency department between January and August 2011 were enrolled in study 1. Oxidative stress and heart rate variability were measured and compared with those of healthy volunteers (n = 23). In study 2, oxidative stress in 18 vertigo patients and heart rate variability in 41 vertigo patients were measured between January and August 2012 before and after conventional treatment of vertigo to evaluate the effect of the treatment on oxidative stress and autonomic nervous activity. Results Reactive oxygen metabolites were higher in vertigo patients than in healthy volunteers. Parasympathetic nervous activity was lower and the sympathetic/parasympathetic nervous activity ratio (autonomic nervous activity ratio) was higher in vertigo patients than in healthy volunteers. After treatment of vertigo, reactive oxygen metabolites decreased significantly and the autonomic nervous activity ratio became similar to that observed in healthy volunteers. Conclusions Bedside monitoring of oxidative stress and heart rate variability may be useful for the diagnosis of vertigo and evaluation of the effect of treatment.
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- Keiichiro Ohara
- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital Urayasu City Chiba Japan
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Cheng YC, Lee WC, Kuo LC, Lin YK, Chen CW, Lin TY, Lin HL. Use of sodium bicarbonate for acute dizziness after minor head injury. Tzu Chi Med J 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcmj.2011.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Change of extracellular ascorbic acid in the brain cortex following ice water vestibular stimulation: an on-line electrochemical detection coupled with in vivo microdialysis sampling for guinea pigs. Chin Med J (Engl) 2008. [DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200806020-00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Kitahara T, Kondoh K, Morihana T, Okumura SI, Horii A, Takeda N, Kubo T. Steroid effects on vestibular compensation in human. Neurol Res 2003; 25:287-91. [PMID: 12739240 DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Vestibular neuritis (VN) rapidly damages unilateral vestibular periphery, inducing severe balance disorders. In most cases, such vestibular imbalance is gradually restored to within the normal level after clinical therapies. This successive clinical recovery occurs due to regeneration of vestibular periphery and/or accomplishment of central vestibular compensation. We experienced 36 patients with VN treated at our hospital, including cases in our previous preliminary report. To elucidate effects of steroid therapy both on the recovery of peripheral function and on the adaptation of central vestibular compensation, we examined caloric test and several questionnaires with two randomly divided groups, 18 steroid-treated and 18 nonsteroid-treated patients, over two years after the onset. These examinations revealed that steroid-treated patients had a tendency of better canal improvements (13/18, 72%) than nonsteroid-treated ones (10/18, 55.6%). However, there was no significant difference between these two groups. In cases with persistent canal paresis, steroid-treated patients (n = 5) reduced handicaps in their everyday life due to the dizziness induced by head and/or body movements and the disturbance of their mood, more effectively than those with nonsteroid therapy (n = 8). These findings suggest that steroid therapy with VN could be effective on not only vestibular periphery but central vestibular system, to restore the balance.
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- Tadashi Kitahara
- Department of Otolaryngology & Sensory Organ Surgery, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
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Yamanaka T, Amano T, Sasa M, Matsunaga T. Prednisolone excitation of medial vestibular nucleus neurons in cats. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 1995; 252:112-8. [PMID: 7598871 DOI: 10.1007/bf00168032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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An electrophysiological study was performed to determine whether prednisolone hydrochloride directly influenced neuronal activities of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) in alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats. Single neuronal activities of MVN were recorded extracellularly with a glass-insulated silver wire microelectrode attached along a seven-barreled micropipette. Each barrel was filled with prednisolone, glutamate, glutamic acid diethylester (GDEE) or CoCl2. Except for prednisolone, which was administered both intravenously and microiontophoretically, other chemicals were applied microiontophoretically to the immediate vicinity of the target neurons. These MVN neurons were classified as type I and II neurons according to their responses to horizontal and sinusoidal rotations. Intravenous prednisolone (up to 5 mg/kg) enhanced spontaneous and rotation-induced neuronal firings of both type I and II neurons in a dose-dependent manner. In a similar tendency, microiontophoretically applied prednisolone (50-200 nA) dose-dependently increased spontaneous and rotation-induced firings of both type I and II neurons. Microiontophoretic GDEE, a non-selective glutamate receptor antagonist, inhibited glutamate- and rotation-induced neuronal discharges without affecting prednisolone-induced increases in neuronal responses of MVN. In addition, iontophoretically applied CoCl2, a Ca2+ channel blocker, did not affect prednisolone-, glutamate- and rotation-induced neuronal findings of MVN. These results suggest that prednisolone induces excitation of type I and II neurons, probably by acting directly on the membrane of MVN neurons. Thus, glucocorticoids such as prednisolone may be effective for the treatment of vertigo resulting from hypofunction of vestibular nucleus neurons.
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- T Yamanaka
- Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Nara Medical University, Japan
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