ABSTRACT
The AA. of the present paper recall the clinical and functional results of this therapy in a group of 70 patients complaining of vertigo. The Gingko biloba extract (4 ml/12 h per mouth) has been continued during 6 months. Neck and vertebrobasilar insufficiency were predominant causes. Six months later statistically significant changes regarding the decrease of intensity of tinnitus and vertigo crises were confirmed. Besides favorable alterations in the peripherical symptomatology as a relative hearing improvement turned up.
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Brain Ischemia/complications , Cochlea/physiopathology , Plant Extracts/therapeutic use , Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency , Vertigo , Vestibule, Labyrinth/physiopathology , Adult , Aged , Audiometry, Pure-Tone , Female , Hearing Disorders/diagnosis , Hearing Disorders/drug therapy , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency/drug therapy , Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency/etiology , Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency/physiopathology , Vertigo/drug therapy , Vertigo/etiology , Vertigo/physiopathologyABSTRACT
Distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPEs) are a subtype of evoked otoacoustic emissions that represent a class of cochlear response. Because of their frequency specificity and the wide range of frequencies explored DPEs have a great potential for clinical use. DPEs studies include DP-audiograms and input/output functions. We recorded 27 DPEs, 24 of them from normal ears and 3 from pathological ears. This report resumes methods and results.