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*Vertigo is one of the four type of dizziness, therefore it must be differentiated from other forms of dizziness, [[presyncope]], [[lightheadedness]] and [[disequilibrium]].<ref name="Derebery1999">{{cite journal|last1=Derebery|first1=M. Jennifer|title=THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DIZZINESS|journal=Medical Clinics of North America|volume=83|issue=1|year=1999|pages=163–177|issn=00257125|doi=10.1016/S0025-7125(05)70095-X}}</ref> | *Vertigo is one of the four type of [[dizziness]], therefore it must be differentiated from other forms of [[dizziness]], [[presyncope]], [[lightheadedness]] and [[disequilibrium]].<ref name="Derebery1999">{{cite journal|last1=Derebery|first1=M. Jennifer|title=THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DIZZINESS|journal=Medical Clinics of North America|volume=83|issue=1|year=1999|pages=163–177|issn=00257125|doi=10.1016/S0025-7125(05)70095-X}}</ref> | ||
==Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases== | ==Differentiating Vertigo from Other Diseases== |
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Overview
- Vertigo is one of the four type of dizziness, therefore it must be differentiated from other forms of dizziness, presyncope, lightheadedness and 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
- ↑ Derebery, M. Jennifer (1999). "THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DIZZINESS". Medical Clinics of North America. 83 (1): 163–177. doi:10.1016/S0025-7125(05)70095-X. ISSN 0025-7125.
- ↑ Labuguen RH (2006). "Initial evaluation of vertigo". Am Fam Physician. 73 (2): 244–51. PMID 16445269.