Asymmetry of motion VEP in infantile strabismus and in central vestibular nystagmus
- 1 December 1995
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Documenta Ophthalmologica
- Vol. 89 (4), 373-381
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01203712
Abstract
Norciaet al. [1] found a nasal-temporal asymmetry of visually evoked potentials (VEP) elicited by motion stimuli in patients with infantile strabismus. Patients with infantile strabismus typically present with an asymmetry of the monocular optokinetic nystagmus (OKN). We here address the question whether the asymmetry of the motion VEP indicates a sensory defect in the afferent visual pathway that could explain the OKN asymmetry. We recorded the VEP to a horizontally oscillating vertical sinusoidal grating in 20 patients with infantile strabismus (esotropia, asymmetry of the monocular optokinetic nystagmus, latent ??tagrnus) and in 10 normal controls. No asymmetry occurred in the 10 controls. Eight of the 20 patients with infantile strabismus showed a clear difference between the VEPs evoked by back and forth movements with a mirror-like asymmetry between the two eyes (phase shift 180±20°). However, there was no significant correlation between the degree of VEP and OKN asymmetries. Therefore, we assume that the VEP asymmetry does not reflect the primary cause of the OKN asymmetry. Rather, the OKN asymmetry may be due to a sensory-motor defect in the efferent subcortical pathway, and the VEP asymmetry could be an epiphenomenon. Some of the VEP asymmetry may be a consequence of the latent nystagmus typically released under monocular stimulation, leading to adaptation of the afferent retino-cortical pathway. This suggestion is supported by a marked VEP asymmetry that we found in two patients with an acquired central vestibular nystagmus, an abnormality most likely not combined with a primary defect of the retino-cortical pathway.Keywords
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