RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Familial vestibulopathy
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 20
OP 20
DO 10.1212/WNL.44.1.20
VO 44
IS 1
A1 Robert W. Baloh
A1 Kathleen Jacobson
A1 Terry Fife
YR 1994
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/44/1/20.abstract
AB Three patients who presented with episodic vertigo followed by gait imbalance and oscillopsia had profound bilateral vestibular loss despite normal hearing. All had a parent with similar findings. The patients, their affected parent, and multiple other family members had a history of migraine headaches, although several of the latter had normal vestibular function. Acetazolamide stopped or markedly decreased the frequency of vertigo attacks in the three patients treated but had little effect on the chronic vestibular loss. This is the first report of a dominantly inherited bilateral vestibulopathy associated with normal hearing.