Statoacoustic failures with respect to Neurootometric measurements occurring in Tinnitus Cases

Authors

Prof.Dr.med. Claus F. Claussen (Bad Kissingen, Germany)
Dr. med. Anemone Luca (Brasov, Romania)
Dr. med. Aureliana Serban (, )
Dr. med Ionut Hantascu (, Hungary)

Proceedings

XXXV Congress of the NES - Bad Kissingen - Germany

Topics

Sensology
Hearing
Diseases
Neurootology
Equilibrium
Equilibriometric tests
Neurootology
Equilibrium
Sensology
Hearing
Neurootology
Sensology

Keywords

caloric test, Claussen-Butterfly, endogenous tinnitus, exogenous tinnitus, neurootometry, statoacoustic systems, Tinnitus, vestibular decruitment, vestibular recruitment, VSRIC.

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Abstract

Besides of vertigo, nausea and hearing loss tinnitus belongs to the most important symptoms in neurootology. We have to discriminate between an endogenous i.e. a maskable tinnitus, from an exogenous tinnitus, which is nonmaskable. However, both are spontaneous, subjective and annoying phenomena, which frequently still are listed amongst other diseases of the ear.

For this paper we investigated 284 patients with tinnitus amongst others by ENG, caloric and rotatory tests, ABEP, ALEP, VEP and CCG.

Through the vestibular stimulus response intensity comparison (VSRIC ) 

we found, that this  pattern in 40.49% showed a decruitment type and in 26.76% a recruitment type.

So, also the interactive statoacoustic function from several inner ear sensors was involved in these tinnitus patients.