title: [Hearing alterations in vertebro-basilar insufficiency (author's transl)].
abstract: The morphological facts are represented, to see hearing alterations as a possible consequence of vertebro-basilar insufficiency. The conception: "vertebro-basilar insufficiency" is defined. Compared to vestibular disturbances cochlear disturbances in vertebro-basilar insufficiency are extremely rare. Always we find sensorineural hearing loss or complete unilateral deafness, most combined with tinnitus. All publications we got reported, only 4 from otologists. The conception "sudden deafness" is defined by differential diagnosis. The vertebro-basilar insufficiency, secured by arteriographical or neurological examinations, is not the same as a syndrome of cervical spine with effects to the vertebro-basilar artery system, except the pathogenesis of this syndrom is evident. But this evidence is not given till now.
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry; D001488:Basilar Artery; D002539:Cerebral Arterial Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000601:surgery; D003638:Deafness / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007759:Labyrinth Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000601:surgery
vernacular_title: Hörstörungen bei vertebro-basilärer Insuffizienz