Vertigo differential diagnosis
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Overview
- Vertigo is a type of dizziness therefore it must be differentiated from other diseases that causes imbalance, dizziness, and lightheadedness.
Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases
- Many disease cause vertigo as a symptom, following diseases must be investigated as a differential diagnosis for vertigo symptom:[1]
- 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
- ↑ Labuguen RH (2006). "Initial evaluation of vertigo". Am Fam Physician. 73 (2): 244–51. PMID 16445269.