Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potentials
摘要
Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) testing is a key component of the vestibular test battery and is helpful with the diagnosis of third mobile window phenomena such as superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS). Cervical and ocular VEMPs (cVEMPs and oVEMPs) are the two commonly used procedures within this category, and are theorized to evaluate the saccule and the inferior vestibular nerve and the utricle and the superior vestibular nerve pathway, respectively. While more recent literature has called these ideas into question, the addition of vestibular-evoked potentials to the conventional vestibular test battery provides a more detailed picture and thus more comprehensive diagnostic information on the peripheral and central vestibular pathways.