Betahistine treatment improves the recovery of static symptoms in patients with unilateral vestibular loss

Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 538-548

  Redon, Christine ^a   Lopez, Christophe ^a,b   Bernard Demanze, Laurence ^a   Dumitrescu, Michel ^a   Magnan, Jacques ^c   Lacour, Michel ^a   Borel, Liliane ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Drug therapy; Recovery time course; Vestibular compensation; Vestibular pathology

Indexed keywords

BETAHISTINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; NYSTAGMUS; OCULAR CYCLOTORSION; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT DURATION; UNILATERAL VESTIBULAR NEUROTOMY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

BETAHISTINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PLACEBOS; POSTURAL BALANCE; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 79953773354     PISSN: 00912700     EISSN: 15524604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0091270010369241     Document Type: Article

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