NCT00810641

Treatment of Apogeotropic Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Randomized Multicenter Study of Treatment of Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 157 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chonbuk National University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the immediate efficacies of each treatment maneuvers in treatment of apogeotropic horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HC-BPPV).

Detailed description

A randomized prospective study of patients with HC-BPPV. Patients with apogeotropic type of HC-BPPV were randomized to one of each three treatment groups at their first clinic visit. These groups included the Gufoni maneuver, head-shaking maneuver, and sham group in apogeotropic HC-BPPV. Responsiveness of treatment maneuver was determined by positioning maneuver immediately after each treatment method based on resolves of vertigo and positional nystagmus.

Conditions

• HC-BPPV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Gufoni maneuver	For Gufoni maneuver,16,18 the patient was quickly brought down to the side-lying position on the affected ear from the sitting position. After one minute in this position, the head of the patient was quickly turned 45O upward, so that the nose directed upward. Approximately 2 minutes later, the patient was returned to the upright position (Figure 2A).
PROCEDURE	Head-shaking maneuver	For head-shaking maneuver,15 patients were brought into a sitting position. After pitching the head forward by approximately 30O, we moved the head sideways in a sinusoidal fashion at an approximate rate of 3 Hz for 15 seconds.
PROCEDURE	sham maneuver	For the sham maneuver, patients quickly lied on the unaffected side, and returned to the sitting position after one minute.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2008-12-18
• Last updated: 2011-06-27
• Results posted: 2011-06-27

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: South Korea