Prediction of Auditory Brainstem Wave V Latency as a Diagnostic Tool of Sensorineural Hearing Loss: La prédiction dela latence de l'onde V de la réponse du tronc cérébral dans le diagnostic des hypoacousies neurosensorielles
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Audiology
- Vol. 26 (3) , 179-187
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00206098709078420
Abstract
The lesion location (cochlear vs. retrocochlear) of sensorineural hearing loss may be differentiated with a diagnostic index (ΔV), which is calculated from the wave V latency of the monaurally evoked auditory brainstem response (ABR), and from the pure-tone hearing threshold at 2 and 4 kHz. The ΔV values obtained from 80 recruiting ears have proven to correlate linearly to the amount of the hearing loss, hence allowing to define appropriate confidence boundaries for cochlear hearing losses. In contrast, the ΔV values obtained from 32 ears of patients with retrocochlear lesions - cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors - were all found to exceed the 95% upper confidence limits projected for cochlear lesions, thus giving a 100% rate of true results in the detection of retrocochlear pathology. These results, providing an ABR parametric model for the cochlear hearing loss, suggest a diagnostic strategy for the early detection of CPA tumors based on the exclusion of a cochlear hearing loss. Le diagnostic différentiel des hypoacousies neurosensorielles entre lésion cochléaire et rétrocochléaire peut ětre effectué avec un indice (ΔV) dérivé de la latence de l'onde V et de la moyenne du seuil tonal à 2 et 4kHz de l'oreille examinée. Les valeurs de ΔV obtenues pour 80 oreilles avec lésion cochléaire ont démontré une relation statistiquement significative avec le degré de la perte tonale qui nous a permis de calculer les limites de la distribution ΔV contre 2-4 dB HL (moyenne du seuil tonal à 2 et 4 kHz) dans les cochléopathies. Sur 32 patients avec lésion rétrocochléaire, les valeurs ΔV se sont révélées toutes en dehors de la zone des cochléopathies (limites de confiance de 95%) obtenant ainsi unpourcentage d'identification parfaite de 100%. Ces résultats, graˇce à la construction d'un modèle ABR des hypoacousies cochléaires, permettent de suivre une stratégie diagnostique pour l'identification précoce des processus expansifs de l'angle pontocérébelleux basée sur l'exclusion d'une lésion cochléaire.Keywords
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