Abstract
We have used retrolabyrinthine vestibular neurectomy In 36 of 49 cases as the primary surgical procedure to relieve vertigo. Most of the patients (46 of 49) had Meniere's disease. Results indicate that 71% (35 of 49) of the patients had no vertigo after the operation, while 22% (11 of 49) had much Improvement. Hearing was maintained within 20 dB of the preoperative level in 78% (38 of 49) of the patients. During surgery in the last 23 patients, direct nerve potentials were recorded from the middle ear promontory and the intracranial cochlear nerve. Brain stem auditory evoked responses were simultaneously recorded in the last 10 patients. It appears that the intraoperative direct cochlear nerve potentials can be used as a sensitive monitor of trauma to the cochlear nerve during and after vestibular neurectomy. If the latency of the eighth nerve action potential changes less than 0.3 msec and the waveform does not change after vestibular neurectomy, there is an excellent chance that hearing at 1 month after surgery will be within 15 dB of the level before surgery. The retrolabyrinthine vestibular neurectomy has replaced the middle fossa vestibular neurectomy and the endolymphatic subarachnoid shunt procedure in our clinic.
Subject
Otorhinolaryngology,Surgery
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