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| Title: | Effect of Intratympanic Application of Aminoglycosides on Click-Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Guinea Pigs |
| Authors: | 戴安修;呂俊宏;楊庭華;楊怡和
DAY, AN-SHIOU;LUE, JUNE-HORNG;YANG, TING-HUA;YOUNG, YI-HO |
| Contributors: | 耳鼻喉部 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Issue Date: | 2009-10-14T11:28:40Z |
| Abstract: | Objectives: Although numerous studies have identified damage to the cochlear and vestibular end organs as the primary site of aminoglycoside- induced ototoxicity, the effect on the saccule remains poorly understood, possibly due to lack of monitoring saccular function in experimental animals. Therefore, this study applied three kinds of amino- glycosides into the tympanic space of guinea pigs to examine their toxic impact on the saccule by way of click-evoked myogenic potential test coupled with morphologic assessment. Design: Albino guinea pigs were treated with saline, gentamicin, tobramycin, or amikacin, with 10 animals assigned to each group. Each compound was injected directly overlying but not through the round window membrane on the left ear, with the right ear serving as a control. One week after injection, each animal underwent auditory brain stem response, caloric test, and click-evoked myogenic potential test. Animals were then killed for morphologic assessment through the use of light and electron microscopic examinations. Results: The animals treated with saline, gentamicin, tobramycin, or amikacin exhibited abnormal auditory brain stem response in 0%, 30%, 100%, and 30% of cases; abnormal caloric responses were found in 0%, 100%, 40 %, and 40% of cases; absent click-evoked myogenic potentials were found in 0%, 100%, 30%, and 40% of cases, respectively . Gentamicin and other groups differed significantly in abnormal rates of caloric responses and click-evoked myogenic potentials. Morphologic study of the gentamicin- treated animals confirmed that the absence of click-evoked myogenic potential originated from the lesion in the saccular macula. Conclusions. Gentamicin represents the dominant susceptibility of aminoglycoside-induced vestibulotoxicity for eliminating both semicircular canal and saccular functions. This study further confirms the findings of human studies in which the caloric and vestibular evoked myogenic potentials responses were monitored to assess the abolition of vestibular function in patients treated with intratympanic gentamicin injection. |
| Relation: | EAR AND HEARING v.28 n.1 pp.18-25 |
| Appears in Collections: | [附設醫院耳鼻喉部] 期刊論文
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