Vestibular migraine presenting with acute peripheral vestibulopathy: Clinical, oculographic and vestibular test profiles

To describe clinical, oculographic and vestibular test profiles in patients with vestibular migraine (VM) who presented with acute peripheral vestibulopathy. VM was diagnosed according to Bárány Society or Neuhauser criteria. Neuro-otological examination, video-head impulse tests (v-HIT), cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP/oVEMP), subjective visual horizontal (SVH) and audiometry were undertaken. Ten patients presented with prolonged vertigo. All had primary position unidirectional horizontal spontaneous nystagmus (mean slow-phase velocity 9.6 ± 7.0°). Horizontal canal vestibulo-ocular reflex was reduced in all (mean gain 0.54 ± 0.2) with refixation saccades (cumulative amplitude 6.4 ± 3.2°). Abnormality rates for cVEMP, oVEMP and SVH were 30%, 80%, 78%, respectively. Magnetic resonance imaging brain was normal in all patients. Patients were followed up over 6 months to 8 years with no change in the final diagnosis. VM can rarely present as an acute peripheral vestibulopathy with findings that mimic vestibular neuritis and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of acute prolonged vertigo.

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  2020

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  Cephalalgia Reports

• Publication date

  2020-09-14

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  DOI 10.1177/2515816320958175
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