Heike Benecke, Herminio Pérez-Garrigues, Dinsuhaimi Bin Sidek, Ingrida Uloziene, Kuessner D, Eric Sondag, Ad Theeuwes
{"title":"Effects of betahistine on patient-reported outcomes in routine practice in patients with vestibular vertigo and appraisal of tolerability: experience in the OSVaLD study.","authors":"Heike Benecke, Herminio Pérez-Garrigues, Dinsuhaimi Bin Sidek, Ingrida Uloziene, Kuessner D, Eric Sondag, Ad Theeuwes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This was a 3-month multicentre, open-label post-marketing surveillance study of betahistine (24 mg b.i.d. or 16 mg t.i.d.) in patients with vertigo of peripheral vestibular origin. Study endpoints comprised on-treatment changes in the Dizziness Handicap Index (DHI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Score (HADS) and the Short-Form (SF)-36v2. Total DHI score improved 37.2 points (of a 100-point scale) following betahistine treatment. Corresponding improvements occurred in all three DHI scale domains (all p < 0.001 vs baseline). Betahistine therapy was also accompanied by progressive, significant improvements in both HADS-A and HADS-D scores (p < 0.001), and improvements in the distribution profiles of anxiety and depression scores. Significant improvements in the Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary scores of the SF-36v2 were recorded during betahistine treatment. Betahistine was generally well tolerated. A total of 76 adverse drug reactions (ADRs) were recorded in 49 patients (2.4%), of which 75 were classified as mild or moderate and 54 were possibly related to betahistine. ADRs led to study drug discontinuation in 17 patients. These data illustrate that treatment with betahistine 48 mg/day in patients with recurrent peripheral vestibular vertigo is associated with improvements in objective measures of health-related quality of life and satisfactory tolerability.</p>","PeriodicalId":39842,"journal":{"name":"International Tinnitus Journal","volume":" ","pages":"14-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40106479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of treatment with betahistine dihydrochloride on the postural stability in patients with different duration of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.","authors":"Katerina Stambolieva, Georgi Angov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of betahistine dihydrochloride on the postural stability after repositioning Epley's maneuver (EM) in patients with BPPV was evaluated by static posturography in open and closed eyes conditions. Ninety patients were divided into four groups by duration (less and above 60 days of BPPV) and by treatment (with and without treatment with betahistine). The investigation was made one hour after the positive Dix-Hallpike test, 10 and 20 days after the treatment with EM. \"Sway velocity\" (SV) was calculated to evaluate postural stability. The results show dependence between efficacy of treatment with betahistine applied after EM and duration of BPPV. Betahistine normalized postural stability of patients with duration of BPPV less than 60 days after 10 days of treatment and had less effect on patients with duration of BPPV above 60 days. We assume that after removing the otoconia betahistine plays an important role for improving blood flow in the inner ear. The short presence of otoconia didn't damage sensory receptor, and restoring the normal function of motion-sensitive hairs cells and stabilizing the posture was observed.</p>","PeriodicalId":39842,"journal":{"name":"International Tinnitus Journal","volume":" ","pages":"32-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40107194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}