Author/Editor		Vatovec, J
Title		Faktori koji utječu na brzinu kompenzacije vestibularnog osjetila
Type		članek
Source		Symp Otorhinolaryngol Zagreb
Vol. and No.		Letnik 27
Publication year		1992
Volume		str. 33-7
Language		cro
Abstract		In patients with vestibular pathology compensation is a progressive active process evident by changes of the vestibulospinal and vestibuloocular reflexes. A group of 52 subjects with a sudden unilateral weakness was studied. An examination protocol was made to determine the etilogy and factors that slow down the process of compenstaion. Three months after the onset of the investigation 22 persons were restored to health, compenstaion process took place in 13 of them, and no compenstaion occurre in 17 cases. The vestibular compenstion was significantly slowed down in cases with simultaneous impairment of the auditory function as well as in cases with the impairment of some other structure of the systems for space perception and balance maintenance. The positional nystagmus in electronystagmography was the most persistent sign of vestibular disorder. Plain clinical tests cannot be used to effectively determine type of a disorder, which appears to be especially important in forensic medicine and in cases when working capability is to be evaluated.
Descriptors		VESTIBULAR DISEASES ADOLESCENCE ADULT MIDDLE AGE AGED ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY