Intrarater and interrater agreement and reliability of vestibular evoked myogenic potential triggered by galvanic vestibular stimulation (galvanic-VEMP) for HTLV-1 associated myelopathy testing.

Júlia Fonseca de Morais CaporaliLudimila LabancaKyonis Rodrigues FlorentinoBárbara Oliveira SouzaDenise Utsch Gonçalves

Published in: PloS one (2018)

Galvanic-VEMP is a reliable and reproducible method to define the integrity of the vestibulospinal tract. Longitudinal studies will clarify its validity in the clinical context, aimed at achieving an early diagnosis and the monitoring of HAM.

Keyphrases

spinal cord
hearing loss
skeletal muscle
cross sectional
risk assessment
human health