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Having come agonisingly close to gaining points in Spain, Ratthapark "Feem" Wilairot is brimming with confidence for the British Grand Prix tomorrow.
After getting his campaign off the mark with a ninth-place finish in the French Grand Prix, the Thai Honda Gresini Moto2 rider narrowly missed gaining points two races in a row, finishing just two places outside the top-15 in Barcelona, Spain a fortnight ago.
However, the near miss only made Feem more determined to get his campaign back on track in the 600cc Moto2 division. Given his increasing confidence in the new Suter chassis, the Thai rider, who turned 24 in April, is targeting more points at the famed Silverstone circuit.
"Our lap times in Barcelona were not bad, but not strong enough. After about seven laps I lost the group and had 'chatter' problems with the front and rear.
"We are getting help from Showa with a new system on the front and rear shock and in general my feeling with the bike has improved a lot after the change of chassis. Hopefully we can get good weather and a good result this weekend," Feem told Gresiniracingmoto2.com.
Team owner Fausto Gresini said Feem only needed to find a little extra to take a points place in the sixth race of the season at Silverstone.
"Again in Barcelona Feem showed that he is easily able to finish in the top 15. He is making great progress and Silverstone should see him confirm his good form.
"He is improving his feeling with the bike and making constant positive steps forward. He just needs another push to break into the points in what is a very competitive category," said Gresini.
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LONDON: That parental obesity affects the likelihood of children to over-eat and develop obesity is known, but researchers have now identified the genetic link behind the mechanism.
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Being over-weight and obese has a direct impact on the genes which signal when it is time to stop eating, the findings showed.
Blocked expression of a gene called POMC, which manages a discrete area of the brain that controls feeding behaviour could provide the missing link between a mother's diet and an offspring's risk of future obesity.
Excess methylation (an important component in cellular processes) on the DNA sequence blocks the ability to express this gene, leading to a late satiety response, increased food intake and eventual obesity.
"We observed a clear correspondence between a specific genetic mechanism and weight gain, potentially allowing for early detection and prevention of obesity," said Asaf Marco, a researcher involved in the work from Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.
For the study, the researchers fed female rats a high-fat diet and a standard diet from post-weaning to adulthood and in a separate group through pregnancy and lactation.
All offspring, including those of the high-fat treated rats, received standard food after weaning until adulthood.
Blood was analysed for hormone levels and brain sections for genetic modification on the specific DNA sequence of interest.
The researchers found that genetic malprogramming induced by maternal high-fat diet had a long-term effect on the offspring's vulnerability to development of obesity.
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FCOA supports the LIHEAP/EHEAP Programs and the use of the lawful Federal allocation formula (can increase funding to Florida by 54%). Florida's Emergency Home Energy Assistance for the Elderly Program (EHEAP) helps low-income households, with at least one person age 60 and older, when the households are experiencing a home energy emergency and are unable to pay their bill. Households can receive this type financial assistance a maximum of twice a year – once during the heating season (October - March) and again during the cooling season (April - September). Eligibility for this program is determined by a local community agency designated by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. Click here to view FCOA's Resolution to Support LIHEAP.
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Two Mexicos coexist, one an insular land of hard-to-kill monopolies in politics and business, the other more outward-looking, embracing modernity and even the United States. In "Amarres perros" pundit-politician Jorge Castañeda recalls a life of trying to change the balance.
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The Mexican tycoon bought a 25 pct stake in property firm Realia at a discount and is eyeing a takeover. He is also the biggest shareholder of builder FCC, which in turn owns major stakes in Realia and Cementos Portland. Slim effectively controls all three. Minorities beware.
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Carlos Slim's telecoms empire needs to reduce its dependence on Mexico. The fourth U.S. wireless carrier is cheap, parent Deutsche Telekom doesn't want it and there's strategic logic to a deal. The increasingly frightful competition in U.S. telecoms may be a sticking point.
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Punk retained the WWE Championship due to a draw, but it's clear that Sunday furthered the Punk vs. Cena feud rather than ending it. That isn't the only thing to keep an eye out for, though, as there were several interesting developments at Night of Champions that figure to be explained on Monday.
There were a couple of title changes and some long-running rivalries appeared to come to an end as well, so all three hours of RAW should be jam-packed with action. Even if you weren't overly impressed with Night of Champions, I have a hard time believing that RAW will fall short of expectations.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Mike Tyson missed his scheduled flight to Memphis on Sunday, amid growing indications his comeback fight with Clifford Etienne may be doomed.
The fate of the fight now apparently rests on how Tyson is feeling when he wakes up this morning.
"Unless he just wakes up and feels 100 percent better, most likely we're going to have to postpone," Tyson's manager, Shelly Finkel said. "With each passing hour it looks less likely."
Tyson's behavior in the past week has been erratic, with the former heavyweight champion getting a large tattoo on the side of his face Tuesday, then skipping scheduled workouts the rest of the week.
On Friday, he reportedly went to a doctor for treatment of flulike symptoms, and Finkel said Tyson was still ill over the weekend.
Trainer Freddie Roach said he was told to wait another day in case Tyson decided to go through with the fight, and said he was still hopeful the fight might happen.
"Fighters fight sick all the time," Roach said. "When I was asked to stay another day, I had a feeling maybe Mike's going to fight."
Showtime executive Jay Larkin, whose network is building a night of programming around the fight and a rap concert by Jay-Z, said late Sunday the fight was still on.
"We're just waiting for a call to see what Mike feels like," Larkin said.
Finkel indicated, though, that the chances of the fight going off as scheduled on Saturday were dropping.
"My gut feeling is it won't happen," he said.
The Etienne fight may be the least of the worries for Tyson's handlers. If Saturday's fight is not held, it likely means Tyson will not get a planned June rematch with Lennox Lewis that could be his last huge payday and his last chance for redemption.
Tyson's problems prompted Finkel and one of the promoters, Gary Shaw, to fly to Las Vegas and meet with Tyson at his home Saturday to try to salvage the fight. They emerged from the meeting saying that the fight was still on.
On Sunday, though, Finkel spoke for the first time about the possibility the fight will not go on.
Roach said Tyson missed some critical sparring sessions during the week and that his training schedule would have to be rearranged. He said there was a possibility Tyson could spar Monday if he's feeling well and still fight on Saturday.
"Depending on how he's been treating his body it wouldn't take a lot to get him back in shape," Roach said.
The Etienne fight is crucial to Tyson's hopes of continuing a career that once made him the most feared fighter on the planet.
After taking a beating from Lennox Lewis in their heavyweight title fight last June, Tyson needed a big win over Etienne not only as a confidence booster but also to set up a possible June rematch with Lewis.
But unless the Etienne fight could be quickly rescheduled - a doubtful possibility because of the many logistics that surround a fight - Lewis would likely drop his plans to wait to fight Tyson and perhaps fight WBC No. 1 contender Vitali Klitschko instead.
If the fight is off, it would likely not be rescheduled for weeks, if at all. Larkin said there was a possibility it could be rescheduled for late March but that he was not sure it would happen.
The Showtime cable network had planned an elaborate night of entertainment and was planning to sell the entire evening of events on pay-per-view for non-subscribers.
Ticket sales in Memphis had reportedly been decent, though they were helped by a 2-for-1 sale on many of the seats. Promoters were estimating a crowd of some 12,000 at the Pyramid arena for the fight.
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A Charleston Democrat announced legislation this afternoon that would require the reporting of certain mental health records to a national database that determines whether someone can buy a gun from a retailer.
Parents and students stood behind state Rep. Leon Stavrinakis as he discussed the bill outside Ashley Hall, where a woman with a history of mental illness pointed a gun at an official and pulled the trigger Feb. 4, according to the police.
The gun didn't go off because no round was in the chamber.
Alice Boland, 28, of Beaufort had purchased the .22-caliber pistol three days earlier in Walterboro and did so legally, despite facing a felony charge in 2005 for threatening to kill President George W. Bush. The count later was dropped after she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Stavrinakis said the bill, whose language has not been finalized, would require that such not guilty pleas be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and prevent someone from buying a gun in a shop.
It's expected to draw bi-partisan support, he said. Republican legislators and state Attorney General Alan Wilson already have voiced support for such legislation.
Stavrinakis, whose niece attends the all-girls private school in downtown Charleston, said only six people in the state's history have ever been reported to the database. It's unknown, however, why those particular cases were reported while people such as Boland retained the ability to freely purchase firearms.
The bill is expected to be introduced in Columbia later this week.
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DALLAS - Long lines, fingerprint ink and flashbulbs are being traded for DSL, mouse clicks and dial-up connections from home.
Texans now have the option of renewing their driver's licenses online.
"That's great," said George Blackman of University Park, after waiting in line in downtown Dallas to get his license renewed. "I had no idea or I would have jumped on it. I sure wouldn't have driven all the way down here if I didn't have to."
Gov. Rick Perry unveiled the online license renewals Web site this week to help relieve notoriously long lines and hefty office workloads, said Department of Public Safety online project manager Jim Templeton.
"Our target is 41 percent of renewals going through the Internet, by telephone or mail," Templeton said. "We do about 300,000 renewals every year, and right now, about 80,000 are done through the mail. We'd like to get close to 130,000 to 140,000 of the folks who renew to do it by an alternative method. That will take that many out of the office that month."
Templeton said 235 motorists renewed their licenses online Monday, followed by 1,009 on Tuesday.
Some motorists still are tentative about the department's newest feature, also available in Spanish, even in the face of lengthy waits in person.
"I don't think I would do it," said 30-year-old Michael Hall of DeSoto, while waiting to renew his license. "I don't want to give out my Social Security number and information like that online. I would just rather come up here."
Templeton said the DPS had taken several steps to lessen the danger of fraud, identity theft or hacking. Drivers are asked to provide only the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, and credit card numbers are protected by encryption technology.
"We use a photo that we already have on file. You cannot change the name, date of birth, and we will not even tell you what address we have on file," Templeton said. "The pieces of data we ask you for do not all appear together on one item. Just by dropping your license on the ground, someone would not be able to pick it up and renew without getting additional information."
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Texas drivers who renewed their licenses through the mail during the most recent six-year renewal cycle and those with no digital photo on file with DPS would not be allowed to renew online, Templeton said.
Someone who renews online today would have to visit a DPS office for an eyesight check for the next renewal. And the same limitations on people with poor driving records would apply, he said, explaining that the system would block drivers who are not supposed to have licenses.
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As Britain becomes a nation of clone towns suffocated by high street chain stores, Whitstable continues to shine as a champion of the independent retailer. A study by think-tank the New Economics Foundation found the seaside resort is top of the list in terms of diversity, with none of the 'sameness' associated with most town centres. Findings showed 41 per cent of UK towns surveyed were clones of each other – where more than half the stores were chains – and 23 per cent were on the verge of becoming clones. Whitstable was one of the 36 per cent to have more than a third of its shops independent, snubbing the commonplace shopping experience seen elsewhere.
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Should we blame Don Mattrick for the Xbox One's mediocre start?
grampamurked 2 years ago#31
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TheGam3925 2 years ago#32
Adam Orth didn't help things either when he told gamers to deal with it.
Reviews? Polls? Sales? Resolution? FPS? Nothing matters now except for what the competition does not have.
wake_me_420 2 years ago#33
grampamurked posted...
I blame gamers. Microsoft had a vision, gamers blasted that vision.
You say blame gamers, I say congratulate gamers for blasting the original vision.
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the_real_one 2 years ago#34
Hucast9 posted...
I'm pretty sure no 1 man makes decisions. It comes down to a vote between company officials. Don Matrick seems to be one the officials in favor of the mandatory Kinect, always on-line, mandatory drm on-line authentication otherwise your console wont work, being able to gift your game only once, rules where you can and can't sell your game, and no used games.
Well said.
In the entire games industry, Nintendo has done the best job of managing their franchises in the long term. EGM
Bellum_Sacrum 2 years ago#35
Nope, he was just a figurehead, exactly like Phil Spencer is. They 're just doing what they're told while trying to defend the interests of those who tell them what to do.
If you actually paid attention, numerous Microsoft execs and marketing/PR tried to defend the Xbox One DRM and Kinect, including Hryb and Spencer, back when it was first announced.
"Now go ahead and leap ignorantly to the defense of wealthy game companies who don't know or care about you."
InterzoneMantra 2 years ago#36
the_real_one posted...
Hucast9 posted...I'm pretty sure no 1 man makes decisions. It comes down to a vote between company officials. Don Matrick seems to be one the officials in favor of the mandatory Kinect, always on-line, mandatory drm on-line authentication otherwise your console wont work, being able to gift your game only once, rules where you can and can't sell your game, and no used games.
Hit the nail on the head with the first paragraph. For some odd reason everyone on here thinks that Mattrick was the only person that worked on the x1.
eastofeastside 2 years ago#37
Console gaming sucks, MS has the superior multimedia vision.
Stupid gamers falling for Sony's PR hype is the only reason the console market hasn't already flushed itself down the toilet.
Mattrick deserves a very large portion of the blame. As the head of Xbox, he is responsible for approving each of the major problem areas. Others may have come up with the ideas, or refined them. The specific hardware and software decisions may have come from above or below Mattrick and he may have had little real input in some of them, but for most of that process, he could have yelled "STOP, we're doing this all wrong", and people would have had to listen.
Others aren't blameless. Many engineers and their managers share some portion of the blame. So do the other executives. So do people like Major Nelson, for making such idiots of themselves post-reveal. So does Ballmer (who is another person who could have yelled stop, and who definitely should have, when he saw what was being created.
The idea that Mattrick is entirely to blame is silly. So is the idea that he was just along for the ride and couldn't have done anything about the Xbox One.
hoggys2much99 posted...
If they had they would have seen that he had destroyed other companies before he joined MS.
What companies do you imagine that he "destroyed"?
Mattrick's company history is rather short. He co-founded Distinctive Software at age 17, and the company lasted for 9 years before being acquired by EA, working on quite a few ports of well-known titles during that time (and creating the Test Drive series). He remained at EA for a long time, eventually becoming President of Worldwide Studios there. Eventually, he moved to Microsoft.
Distinctive Software were acquired, rather than "destroyed". EA remains notably non-destroyed, which is also the case for Microsoft.
Mattrick's clearly been involved in some problematic decisions that will plague Microsoft for all of this generation, and it's totally fair for people to be questioning his competency in terms of heading the Xbox division, but the idea that he destroyed multiple other companies is fictional.
My source from within Microsoft told me this is what happened to Don Mattrick on the day he left Microsoft back in 2013.
Don Mattrick: While you wait and be patient, Sony and Nintendo laugh at us! The old ways are done. You'd stand giving speeches while Microsoft falls!
Steve Balmer: You're a vain, greedy, cruel boy!
Don Mattrick: And you are an old man and a fool!
Steve Ballmer: I was a fool.....to think you were ready.
Major Nelson: Sir
Steve Ballmer: HARGH!
Steve Balmer: Don Mattrick...You have disobeyed the express command of your CEO. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful Realms and innocent lives to the horrors of the console war. You are unworthy of this company......unworthy of your title......Your unworthy! Of the loved ones you've betrayed. I hereby take from you your power. In the name of Bill Gates...I cast you out!
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Pretty Lights will return to Telluride Town Park in 2016
After playing two nights there in 2015, Colorado EDM godfather Pretty Lights has announced he'll return to Telluride this year for another back-to-back run of shows.
After playing two nights there in 2015, Colorado EDM godfather Pretty Lights has announced he'll return to Telluride this year for another back-to-back run of shows.
What is "electronic music" these days? Certainly, it's a way to describe the equipment through which the music is made, but does it do justice to describing the sound?
METZ, Pretty Lights and more make our picks of the best Colorado shows this week. See you there, and if you don't make it out, follow our music musings on our Twitter @RVRB and our selfies on Instagram @heyreverb.
As if a Pretty Lights production at Red Rocks weren't already an embarrassment of riches. From the giddy, inebriated throngs armed with every manner of glowing toys and clothing, to the city of visualizers, laser and smoke machines erected around Derek Vincent Smith's DJ platform, the prolific Colorado EDM producer aimed to outdo himself on Saturday by layering live symphony players into his Pretty Lights soundscape.
Derek Vincent Smith, the producer/musician/DJ behind Pretty Lights, has been on the edge of EDM innovation for the better part of a decade. Most recently, he's been on an impressive run after dropping a new album last year.
Pretty Lights' live band just keeps getting bigger. After a unique tour last year that had the Denver producer performing with a live band, Pretty Lights has announced he will return to Red Rocks for two nights with 13 members of the Colorado Symphony.
As the final touches on the spray-paint artwork dried and the last Vapor X vaporizer was given away, Snowball 2014 came to a close on Sunday.
Despite its permanently overcast skies, the second day of Snowball saw an uptick in attendance thanks to established names like Pretty Lights, Brother Ali and Yeasayer.
Pretty Lights (aka Colorado's Derek Vincent Smith) can't stop working -- even while on a well-deserved vacation. Since coming on the EDM scene in proper back in 2006, he's made good with eight releases, all the while touring restlessly around the world.
After a number of acts teased their involvement this afternoon, the first wave of artists on the SnowBall 2014 lineup have been revealed. Pretty Lights, Knife Party, Busta Rhymes, Twin Shadow, Yeasayer and more top the now-Denver-based festival.
Though he didn't win for best dance/electronica album, Pretty Lights' Derek Vincent Smith told Fuse that he didn't get his hopes up at the Grammys on Sunday.
Pretty Lights rang in 2014 with a massive dance party that transformed the Colorado Convention Center into a sprawling nightclub on New Year's Eve. The second night of Decadence -- an event billed as Colorado's biggest New Year's Eve party -- also brought performances from Datsik, 12th Planet, Supervision and Paul Basic.
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"Colorado. We've been in this from step f***in' one!" howled a visibly euphoric Derek Vincent Smith to the sold out Ogden Theatre on Thursday. Fueled by the excitement of seeing Pretty Lights in such an intimate venue, the crowd couldn't stop screaming even 90 minutes in.
Topping our picks of best Colorado shows this week are Jay Z, Jeff Tweedy and more. We'll be seeing you there, and if you don't make it out, follow the music musings on our Twitter @RVRB and our selfies on Instagram @heyreverb.
The 1,500-capacity Ogden Theatre will seem pretty small to Pretty Lights, who is used to playing in front of tens of thousands at festivals. And for fans used to seeing Derek Vincent Smith as a little dot behind his equipment, getting tickets to his intimate Dec.
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Friday night at Red Rocks, Derek Vincent Smith — the pioneering electronic-dance-music-hip-hop-local known as Pretty Lights — returned to his home state for the first of two sold out shows.
Topping our picks of best Colorado shows this week are My Bloody Valentine, Charles Bradley and more. We'll be seeing you there, and if you don't make it out, follow the music musings on our Twitter @RVRB and our selfies on Instagram @heyreverb.
The first day of Outside Lands 2013 brought performances by Naia Kete, Smith Westerns, Houndmouth, the Heavy, the Men, Band Of Horses, the National, Rhye, Chic featuring Nile Rodgers, Wyatt Cenac, Chromatics, Pretty Lights and more to San Francisco.
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Baby had first operation within 48 hours, second and final at 15 days old
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- February 10, 2013
TOMMY Maxwell's heart defects were so complex that without immediate medical intervention, he would not live longer than a few hours.
The Victorian baby had his first open heart surgery within his first 48 hours of life. His first heart-attack came just hours later.
His second and final life-saving surgery came at day 15.
Tommy had aortic stenosis, an abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve, which can be fatal.
The left-hand side had also failed to form properly and his heart was riddled with holes.
His heart defects were detected in a 20-week scan, enabling his Jan Juc parents Carrie and Stuart to take him to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital for surgery after birth.
The Maxwells were told his heart was borderline viable, but surgeons said they could patch it up, insert a band and open the narrowed artery.
"Knowing you have a baby that needs medical treatment as soon as he is born is incredibly stressful," Mrs Maxwell said.
They were devastated that as first-time parents they could not pick up their newborn for four weeks.
"It was a roller-coaster of emotions, first we were told it was OK after the first operation and then he had a cardiac arrest."
Tommy spent four weeks in intensive care before going to the ward and finally the family's local hospital.
"We appreciate what a great outcome we've had thanks to the surgeons, doctors and nurses and our family," Mrs Maxwell said.
The case of Tommy, now 10 months, shows how far heart surgery has improved.
Almost 50 years ago a hole in the heart operation was described by this newspaper as a "medical miracle" when it documented the surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
The Sunday Herald Sun recently revisited a standard hole in the heart operation at the RMH. It now takes less staff, half the time and patients no longer need blood transfusions because their blood is collected, cleaned and given back during the operation.
Surgeons used to cool the heart to reduce the heartbeats, but now inject potassium solution to paralyse the cells' function.
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Cardiology department director Associate Prof James Tatoulis said hundreds of these operations used to take place across Melbourne in the late '60s.
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- 1 Bathroom
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Author Affiliations: Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Symptoms of acute vestibular syndrome include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and postural instability. The cause may be a peripheral or central lesion. Distinguishing between these two causes is critical because the treatments differ completely. One bedside test to help make this distinction clinically is the head impulse test (HIT), sometimes called the head thrust test.
To describe a case of complete heart block associated with performance of the HIT.
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A 52-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with sudden onset of dizziness.
The HIT.
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Use of the HIT to help distinguish between a peripheral or central lesion in a patient with dizziness.
Complete heart block occurred immediately after performance of the HIT.
Physicians may perform this test in an office, emergency department, or inpatient setting and should be aware that occasionally patients may have a severe vagal reaction including complete heart block.
Symptoms of acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and postural instability. The cause may be a peripheral or central lesion. Distinguishing between these two causes is critical because the treatments differ completely. Patients with vestibular neuritis benefit from steroids, while those with cerebellar stroke need treatment of the underlying vascular lesion and close monitoring for posterior fossa swelling and brain stem compression.1,2 Pilot data suggest that misdiagnosis of cerebellar infarction may be associated with worse outcomes.3
One bedside test to help make this distinction clinically is the head impulse test (HIT), sometimes called the head thrust test. This test of the vestibular-ocular reflex was first described in 1988.4 The examiner stands in front of the patient, who is seated directly in front of and facing the examiner. The patient is instructed to fixate his or her gaze on the examiner's nose and to allow the examiner to move the patient's head freely (ie, the patient must be completely passive). The examiner then rapidly rotates the patient's head 15° to 20° while carefully watching the patient's eyes. This is repeated several times in each direction.
The normal response (intact vestibular-ocular reflex, compatible with stroke) is for the patient's eyes to remain focused on the examiner's nose. The abnormal response, due to loss of vestibular input (deficient vestibular-ocular reflex, compatible with vestibular neuritis), is for the eyes to move with the head and then snap back to the target in 1 corrective saccade.
To our knowledge, there have been no reported complications reported from using this simple-to-perform bedside maneuver. We describe a patient who developed complete heart block immediately after the HIT was performed.
A 52-year-old woman presented by ambulance to the emergency department with severe dizziness. She woke up to go to the bathroom and felt the sudden onset of a loud pounding in her left ear followed by dizziness. She reported multiple episodes of vomiting especially provoked by any movement. She denied any numbness, weakness, chest pain, or shortness of breath. Her medical history was significant for similar episodes of vertigo, pituitary microadenoma, and vasovagal syncope. She was a social drinker and a nonsmoker. Approximately 10 days prior, she had been treated with azithromycin for an upper respiratory tract infection.
Her temperature was 36.7°C, her pulse was 71 beats/min, her blood pressure was 118/63 mm Hg, her respiratory rate was 12 breaths/min, and her oxygen saturation was 98% on room air. She preferred to lie on her left side with her eyes closed. Cardiac and pulmonary examination results were unremarkable. Cranial nerves II to XII were intact, and her strength was 5/5 in the bilateral upper and lower extremities. Sensory examination results were unremarkable. Deep tendon reflexes were 2+ bilaterally throughout. Formal cerebellar testing results were normal, but the patient could not walk owing to her severe dizziness. She had unilateral horizontal nystagmus.
Results of a noncontrast head computed tomographic scan were negative. The patient was given lorazepam, 2 mg, with partial relief of symptoms. To help distinguish a central process from a peripheral process, we performed the HIT. When the patient's head was rapidly rotated to her right, her eyes lost fixation on the examiner's nose; within 1 to 2 seconds, her eyes snapped back to the examiner's nose in a single corrective saccade. Within 5 to 10 seconds, the patient became diaphoretic and lost consciousness. The cardiac monitor (which initially showed sinus rhythm) now showed complete heart block, which resolved within another 30 seconds without any intervention (Figure).
Cardiac monitor showing sinus rhythm on arrival (A) and complete heart block immediately after the head impulse test (B).
An electrophysiological study showed no evidence of atrioventricular nodal conduction abnormalities or hypersensitive carotid sinus reflex, and the cardiologist concluded that the transient high-degree atrioventricular block was secondary to vagal response. The patient improved with fluids and meclizine hydrochloride and was discharged from the hospital with the diagnosis of peripheral vertigo and a vasovagal event.
We report the first complication of the HIT to our knowledge. This test is an important part of the bedside evaluation of patients with AVS. A positive test result (loss of fixation on the target followed by a corrective saccade of the eyes) indicates a loss of vestibular function on the side toward which the head is rotated and is highly predictive of a peripheral cause such as vestibular neuritis. A negative test result (normal fixation on the target and absence of a corrective saccade) suggests that a posterior circulation stroke is causing AVS. Physicians may perform this test in an office, emergency department, or inpatient setting and should be aware that occasionally patients may have a severe vagal reaction including complete heart block.
One possible explanation for our patient's symptoms is a hypersensitive carotid sinus reflex; however, this was specifically tested for and not found at the electrophysiology study. Another theoretical concern that has been raised about the HIT is the possibility of causing an acute cervical artery dissection.5 Given our patient's lack of neck or head pain, lack of neurological findings, and clinical course, it is also unlikely that arterial dissection caused her symptoms. We believe that the complete heart block was the result of vagal stimulation from her dizziness, abruptly increased by performing the HIT.
Recent studies have shown the HIT to be very useful in distinguishing vestibular neuritis (in which the HIT result is positive) from cerebellar and other brain stem strokes (in which the HIT result is typically negative).5- 7 While a positive HIT result strongly suggests a peripheral cause, it should not be used in isolation. This is because occasionally patients with central vestibular lesions will have a positive HIT result secondary to lesions affecting the vestibular nerve root entry zone in the pons or at the level of its nucleus. In one small study,5 9% of patients with a central cause of their AVS had a positive HIT result.
In these instances, however, other tests such as quality of the nystagmus, presence of skew deviation, other central findings on examination, and degree of ataxia will help to make this distinction between a peripheral cause of AVS and a central one.7 Specifically, patients with peripheral vestibular disease have horizontal direction–fixed nystagmus, whereas patients with vertigo from a central cause will often have nystagmus that is either vertical or horizontal direction changing. Skew deviation is rarely seen in peripheral vestibular disorders. Other central findings such as speech, motor, sensory, and visual deficits suggest a central cause.8 Severe ataxia in which the patient cannot walk or sit unassisted or unsupported also suggests a central cause.7,9 Therefore, in the presence of these other suspicious findings, even patients with a positive HIT result should be investigated for a central cause of AVS.
Accumulating evidence suggests that the HIT is a very useful clinical test, and we believe that it should be used in the evaluation of patients with AVS.5- 7 The results of the HIT should be interpreted in the context of other findings such as other neurological examination findings, presence of vertical skew deviation, quality of nystagmus, and degree of gait instability.1,7- 9 When performing the HIT, however, we do caution physicians to be aware of this complication especially in patients with slow underlying heart rates, receiving calcium- or β-blockers or other atrioventricular nodal blocking medications, or with known history of severe vagal sensitivity.
Correspondence: Edward Ullman, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, One Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02115 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: April 6, 2010.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Ullman and Edlow. Acquisition of data: Ullman. Drafting of the manuscript: Ullman and Edlow. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Ullman and Edlow. Administrative, technical, and material support: Ullman. Study supervision: Edlow.
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