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Vertigo Causes
Aka: Vertigo Causes- See Also
- Vertigo
- Peripheral Causes of Vertigo
- Central Causes of Vertigo
- Vertigo Management
- Meniere's Disease
- Motion Sickness
- Vestibular Neuronitis
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Perilymphatic Fistula (Hennebert's Sign)
- Acute Labyrinthitis
- Bacterial Labyrinthitis (Acute Suppurative Labyrinthitis)
- HiNTs Exam (Three-Step Bedside Oculomotor Examination)
- Horizontal Head Impulse Test (Head Thrust Test, h-HIT)
- Nystagmus
- Skew Deviation (Vertical Ocular Misalignment, Vertical Heterotropia, Vertical Strabismus)
- Dix-Hallpike Maneuver
- Dizziness
- Dysequilibrium
- Syncope
- Light Headedness
- Causes: Vertigo
- Critical to distinguish peripheral from central cause
- Common Primary Vestibular Problems (93% of Vertigo)
- Miscellaneous Causes
- Motion Sickness
- Vertigo Caused by Medication
- Vertigo Caused by Psychological Condition
- Provoked by stress (also seen in Migraine)
- Constant Vertigo for weeks
- Anxiety or Depression
- Brief spells are seen in Panic Attacks
- Persistent Vertigo also seen in Meniere's
- Causes: Vertigo with motor weakness
- Facial weakness
- Other focal neurologic deficits
- Cerebellopontine angle tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Causes: Vertigo with hearing affected
- No Hearing Loss
- Vestibular Neuronitis
- Brainstem Infarct (PICA or anterior vestibular)
- Hearing Loss from acute Vertigo Causes
- Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
- Brainstem Infarct (AICA ot labyrinthine artery)
- Viral Labyrinthitis or Bacterial Labyrinthitis
- Perilymphatic Fistula
- Hearing Loss from chronic Vertigo Causes
- Hearing Loss with Tinnitus
- Hearing Loss with recent Trauma
- No Hearing Loss
- References