Vestibular System in Migrainous Vertigo Patients

University of Bergen

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Migraine Variant; Migraine Disorders; Episodic Recurrent Vertigo

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00901953

2.2006.3376

Details and patient eligibility

About

Do migrainous vertigo patients have more pathology in their vestibular system than migraine patients without vertigo?

The aim of this study is to compare the vestibular system of migraine patients with and without vertigo in the symptom-free period by vestibular function tests, videonystagmography, vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, and subjective visual vertical.

Enrollment: 65 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 61 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• migraine according to IHS criteria
• migrainous vertigo according to the Neuhauser-criteria

Exclusion criteria

• no history of other neurological, vestibular, opthalmologic and ENT disorders
• no medications that could possibly influence test results
• intact hearing measured by audiometry
• pregnancy

Trial design

65 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Description:

migrainous vertigo

2

Description:

migraine without vertigo