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*Vertigo is a type of dizziness therefore it must be differentiated from other diseases that | **Vertigo is a type of dizziness therefore it must be differentiated from other diseases that cause imbalance, [[dizziness]], [[presyncope]], [[lightheadedness]] [[hyperventilation]] [[syndrome]], or [[disequilibrium]].<ref name="pmid20704166">{{cite journal| author=Post RE, Dickerson LM| title=Dizziness: a diagnostic approach. | journal=Am Fam Physician | year= 2010 | volume= 82 | issue= 4 | pages= 361-8, 369 | pmid=20704166 | doi= | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=20704166 }} </ref> | ||
==Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases== | ==Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases== |
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Overview
- Vertigo is a type of dizziness therefore it must be differentiated from other diseases that cause imbalance, dizziness, presyncope, lightheadedness hyperventilation syndrome, or disequilibrium.[1]
Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases
- Many disease cause vertigo as a symptom, following diseases must be investigated as a differential diagnosis for vertigo symptom:[2]
- Acoustic neuroma
- Acute anemia
- Anxiety disorders
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Brain tumors
- Brainstem Stroke
- Cerebellopontine angle tumor
- Chiari malformation
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic anemia
- Giant cell arteritis
- Herpes zoster oticus (Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome
- Labyrinthitis
- Lateral medullary syndrome
- Mastoiditis
- Medication induced
- Ménière disease
- Meningitis
- Migraine headache
- Multiple sclerosis
- Otosclerosis
- Perilymphatic fistula
- Vertebrobasilar atherothrombotic disease
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Wernicke encephalopathy
References
- ↑ Post RE, Dickerson LM (2010). "Dizziness: a diagnostic approach". Am Fam Physician. 82 (4): 361–8, 369. PMID 20704166.
- ↑ Labuguen RH (2006). "Initial evaluation of vertigo". Am Fam Physician. 73 (2): 244–51. PMID 16445269.