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VERTIGO

VERTIGO. Illusion of motion interpreted as self movement or environmental movement Rotating with spinning sense of falling or swaying back and forth: Merry-Go-Round Effect 1/2 of patients with dizziness have vertigo. VERIGO. PERIPHERAL Otitis Media Acute Labyrinthitis

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VERTIGO

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  1. VERTIGO • Illusion of motion interpreted as self movement or environmental movement • Rotating with spinning sense of falling or swaying back and forth: Merry-Go-Round Effect • 1/2 of patients with dizziness have vertigo

  2. VERIGO • PERIPHERAL • Otitis Media • Acute Labyrinthitis • Vestibular Neuronitis • Benign Positional Vertigo • Meniere’s Disease • Ototoxic Drugs Sreptomycin,gentamycin etc. • Lesions of 8th Nerve

  3. VERTIGO • CNS OR SYSTEMIC • Vertebrobasilar ARTERY INSUFFICIENCY • Posterior Fossa tumors • Sroke,cerebellum/Brain stem • Magraine • Metabolic,drugs,hypoxia,anemia,fever • Hypotension,severe Hypertenion • Multiple sclersis,Temporal lobe epilepsy • Psychogenic ventilation,Hysteria.

  4. Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency • Most commonly will also have: -Dysarthria -Ataxia -Facial numbness -Hemiparesis -Diplopia -Headache • Tinnitus and hearing loss unlikely • Vertical nystagmus is characteristic of a (superior colliculus) brain stem lesion • Up to 30% of TIA’s are VBI with pontine symptoms and a focal neurologic lesion

  5. Metabolic Abnormalities • Hypoglycemia • Suspected in any patient with diabetes with associated headache, tachycardia or anxiety • Hypothyroidism • Clinical picture of vertigo, unsteadiness, falling, truncal ataxia and generalized clumsiness

  6. Vertebral Basilar Migraine • Syndrome of vertigo, dysarthria, ataxia, visual changes, paresthesias followed by headache • Distinguishing features of basilar artery migraine -Symptoms precede headache -History of previous attacks -Family history of migraine -No residual neurologic signs • Symptoms coincide with angiographic evidence of intracranial vasoconstriction

  7. Subclavian Steal Syndrome • Rare, but treatable • Arm exercise on side of stenotic subclavian artery usually causes symptoms of intermittent claudication • Blood is shunted away from brainstem into ipsilateral vertebral artery • Classic history occurs only rarely

  8. Drop attack • Abruptly falls without warning, but does not loose consciousness • Believed to be caused by transient quadraparesis due to ischemia at the pyramidal decussation

  9. Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency • Important causes of central vertigo • Related to decreased perfusion of vestibular nuclei in brain stem • Vertigo may be a prominent symptom with ischemia in basilar artery territories • Unusual for vertigo to be only symptom of ischemia

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