Schmidt Claus-Michael, Huebner Jan Robin, Deuster Dirk, Zehnhoff-Dinnesen Antoinette Am, Knief Arne
Muenster University Hospital, Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring 10, 48129 Muenster, Germany.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2012 May;76(5):636-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.01.026. Epub 2012 Feb 13.
Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is characterized by absent or atypical auditory brainstem responses (ABR), recordable otoacoustic emissions and/or cochlear microphonics. Modification of ABR stimuli is discussed to improve wave V synchronization in ANSD patients.
Ten ANSD children (seven unilateral) underwent ABR measurement with an alternating stimulus (40.5s(-1)), constant rarefaction and condensation stimuli, a reduced click-rate (11.1s(-1)) and a chirp-stimulus.
The results showed no remarkably better synchronization with modified stimuli. Whereas higher levels showed no synchronization, reproducible positive waves at 8 ms (P8) at intensities of 65-85 dB were found in six patients with all stimuli.
We suggest an ipsilateral auditory origin of the positive potentials at 8 ms. They could be characteristic of synchronization abnormalities in some cases of ANSD.
听觉神经病谱系障碍(ANSD)的特征是听觉脑干反应(ABR)缺失或异常、可记录的耳声发射和/或耳蜗微音电位。本文讨论了ABR刺激的调整方法,以改善ANSD患者的V波同步性。
10名ANSD儿童(7名单侧患病)接受了ABR测量,测量时采用了交替刺激(40.5次/秒)、恒定的疏波和密波刺激、降低的短声频率(11.1次/秒)以及啁啾刺激。
结果显示,调整后的刺激并未显著改善同步性。虽然高强度刺激下未出现同步,但在65 - 85分贝强度时,6名患者在所有刺激下均在8毫秒时出现了可重复的正向波(P8)。
我们认为8毫秒时的正向电位起源于同侧听觉。在某些ANSD病例中,它们可能是同步异常的特征。