NCT02046980

Treatment of Apogeotropic Horizontal Canal Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 209 (actual)
• Sponsor: Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine the short term therapeutic efficacies of Gufoni maneuver and mastoid oscillation in apogeotropic type of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) involving the horizontal semicircular canal (HC-BPPV), a randomized, prospective, sham-controlled study was conducted.

Detailed description

The apogeotropic type of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo involving the horizontal canal (HC-BPPV) is likely due to otolithic debris in the anterior arm of the canal (canalithiasis) or the debris attached to the cupula (cupulolithiasis). It is important to seek the method to convert treatment-resistant apogeotropic form to the more treatment-responsive geotropic form in HC-BPPV. Recent randomized trials demonstrated that head shaking maneuver was more effective than the modified Semont maneuver and the Gufoni and head shaking maneuvers showed similar efficacy in treating apogeotropic HC-BPPV. Moreover, new repositioning maneuver using mastoid vibration showed good efficacies in patients with apogeotropic HC-BPPV in recent study. So we tried to compare the short term therapeutic efficacies of Gufoni maneuver and mastoid oscillation in apogeotropic HC-BPPV with a randomized, prospective, sham-controlled study.

Conditions

• Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Gufoni
PROCEDURE	Vibration
PROCEDURE	Sham

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2014-01-28
• Last updated: 2016-03-11
• Results posted: 2016-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea