TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in Measures of Vestibular and Balance Function and Hippocampus Volume in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
AU - Cohen, Helen S.
AU - Lincoln, Christie M.
AU - Pavlik, Valory N.
AU - Sangi-Haghpeykar, Haleh
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PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - Objective To test the hypotheses that people with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment have increased frequency of vestibular impairments and decreased hippocampal volume compared with healthy age-matched controls. Study Design Retrospective, with some historical controls. Setting Out-patient, tertiary care center. Subjects People with mild to moderate dementia diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and with mild cognitive impairment. Main Outcome Measures: A standard clinical battery of objective tests of the vestibular system, and screening for balance; available clinical diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) were reviewed and postprocessed to quantify the left and right hippocampal volumes utilizing both manual segmentation and computer automated segmentation. Results Study subjects (N = 26) had significantly more vestibular impairments, especially on Dix-Hallpike maneuvers and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP), than historical controls. No differences were found between mild and moderate dementia subjects. Independence on instrumental activities of daily living in subjects with age-normal balance approached statistical differences from subjects with age-abnormal balance. MRI data were available for 11 subjects. Subjects with abnormal cVEMP had significantly reduced left hippocampal MRIs using manual segmentation compared with subjects with normal cVEMP. Conclusion The data from this small sample support and extend previous evidence for vestibular impairments in this population. The small MRI sample set should be considered preliminary evidence, and suggests the need for further research, with a more robust sample and high-resolution MRIs performed for the purpose of hippocampal analysis.
AB - Objective To test the hypotheses that people with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment have increased frequency of vestibular impairments and decreased hippocampal volume compared with healthy age-matched controls. Study Design Retrospective, with some historical controls. Setting Out-patient, tertiary care center. Subjects People with mild to moderate dementia diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and with mild cognitive impairment. Main Outcome Measures: A standard clinical battery of objective tests of the vestibular system, and screening for balance; available clinical diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs) were reviewed and postprocessed to quantify the left and right hippocampal volumes utilizing both manual segmentation and computer automated segmentation. Results Study subjects (N = 26) had significantly more vestibular impairments, especially on Dix-Hallpike maneuvers and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP), than historical controls. No differences were found between mild and moderate dementia subjects. Independence on instrumental activities of daily living in subjects with age-normal balance approached statistical differences from subjects with age-abnormal balance. MRI data were available for 11 subjects. Subjects with abnormal cVEMP had significantly reduced left hippocampal MRIs using manual segmentation compared with subjects with normal cVEMP. Conclusion The data from this small sample support and extend previous evidence for vestibular impairments in this population. The small MRI sample set should be considered preliminary evidence, and suggests the need for further research, with a more robust sample and high-resolution MRIs performed for the purpose of hippocampal analysis.
KW - Dementia
KW - Hippocampus
KW - MRI
KW - VEMP
KW - Vestibular disorders
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U2 - 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003540
DO - 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003540
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35761460
AN - SCOPUS:85132955815
SN - 1531-7129
VL - 43
SP - E663-E670
JO - Otology and Neurotology
JF - Otology and Neurotology
IS - 6
ER -