If the caloric test (bithermal irrigation) portion of an ENG/VNG comes back with normal, is this evidence against (or does it outright disprove) the idea of vestibular neuritis / labyrinthitis?
All four go-rounds (cold right, cold left, warm right, warm left) produced “robust and symmetrical nystagmus.” All it says was that “left ear response 7% weaker” and “right-beating response 17% stronger.” (I’m not sure if this implies any vestibular impairment. Does it?) The eye speed was 159 deg/sec.
All of the following were normal (for nystagmus): headshake, gaze-vertical, repeat gaze-vertical, gaze-horizontal, repeat gaze-horizontal, spontaneous nystagmus, Dix-Hallpike left, Dix-Hallpike right.
Abnormal portions were the oculomotor tests (saccade-random, repeat saccade-random, OPK-fixed and repeat OPK-fixed). The first two showed some long or borderline-long latencies for moving targets; pursuit was slightly asymmetrical; and the two optokinetic (OPK)-fixed tests had somewhat low gain and asymmetric response, both with “gain lower for rightward moving targets.”
I think Hain previously said, however, that some of these things (including a strabismus) were already noted and probably due, in his opinion, to a slight congenital nystagmus – in other words, likely unrelated to the present problem.