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Most patients had pure tone audiometry, and bithermal caloric tests.

Bithermal caloric tests were normal in all patients who tested.

The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of single and low-dose intratympanic gentamicin therapy in patients with Ménière disease and who were monitored both with caloric tests and vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) to see if VEMPs have an additional role in predicting the efficacy of the drug.

The time interval between the first and second caloric tests ranged from 2 to 42 days (mean, 15.3; median, 12).

Canal paresis was detected on the affected side in 13 patients in both caloric tests and in 6 patients only in the first test.

Each session began with two caloric tests (right and left ear randomized), in order to establish the pre-stimulation oculomotor response.

The sensitivity of the right and left vestibular organs can be compared in a caloric test, in which the external ear canal is irrigated with hot or cold water to induce a response.

The caloric test is an important tool for the assessment of labyrinthine function.

Three patients presented contralateral directional preponderance on caloric test and we found four patients with directional preponderance on analysis of the slow phase velocity of rotation test response.

When impairment was taken into consideration, values were still fair and only moderate for a group of patients with an abnormal caloric test as the only pathologic finding.

Testing included video-oculographic recordings of saccades, pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, a search for positional, gaze-evoked, and spontaneous nystagmus, binaural bithermal caloric testing, and earth-vertical axis rotation.