Criteria for Evaluation of Therapy in Peripheral Vestibular Disease (Tentative Plan)

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The use of disability, a parameter that reflects the patient's subjective symptomatology, for assessment of therapeutic efficacy in peripheral vestibular dis-orders was proposed, and disability was classified into 5 stages according to AAO-HNS criteria, each of which was subdivided into categories of different grades. A series of patients followed for a long time 20 with Meniere's disease, 23 with peripheral vestibular disorders and 16 with vertebro-basilar insufficiency, was investigated by a questionnaire survey and the results were analyzed by for abnormalities of 5 fundamental elements of motion: head movement, transfer of center of gravity, gazing, solar area and passive movement.<BR>It was concluded that disturbances of these 5 fundamental elements of motion, even at the same stage of disability, varied with different disease categories and generally were disease-specific.
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