Nystagmus During a Vertigo Crisis in Menière’s Disease—Direction of Nystagmus, Contribution of a Mobile Phone and Therapeutic Implications
Valéria Ionescu, Tamadhor Alzarqaa, Saad Albalawi, Yann Lelonge, Pierre Reynard, Alexandre Karkas, Pierre Bertholon · 2024
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Valéria Ionescu and co-authors filmed the eye movements of seventeen Menière's disease patients during vertigo attacks in a 2024 study. The disease brings spinning attacks with hearing loss, and the flicker of the eyes, called nystagmus, was long assumed to beat sideways toward or away from the bad ear. The team wanted the true picture, caught live.
Some patients filmed themselves on mobile phones, which proved workable and gave hard proof of the attacks' force. Most flickers ran sideways, toward or away from the affected side, and two flipped direction mid-attack. Three ran up or down instead, a surprise. The authors conclude the flicker direction cannot name the bad ear; hearing tests do that. The videos also helped weigh drastic treatments.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Valéria Ionescu, Tamadhor Alzarqaa, Saad Albalawi, Yann Lelonge, Pierre Reynard, Alexandre Karkas, Pierre Bertholon |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |