Ageing effect on air-conducted ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential

Autor: Kaushlendra Kumar, Jayashree S. Bhat, Nimalka Maria Sequeira, Kiran M. Bhojwani
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Audiology Research, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2039-4330
2039-4349
DOI: 10.4081/audiores.2015.121
Popis: One of the recent diagnostic tests to assess the function of otolithic organs is through vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) testing. There are equivocal findings on effect of aging on ocular VEMP (oVEMP) parameters with reference to latencies. Hence this study was taken up to investigate the age related changes in oVEMP parameters. This present study considered 30 participants in each age group i.e., young adults, middle-aged adults and older adults. oVEMP were recorded using insert earphone at 100dBnHL at 500hZ short duration tone burst. The results showed in older adult significant difference in response rate, latencies and amplitude as compared to young and middle adult. Hence age should be taken into consideration when interpreting oVEMP results.
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