Vertigo and Dizziness (eBook)

Common Complaints

Thomas Brandt, Marianne Dieterich, Michael Strupp (Autoren)

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2007 | 2005
X, 148 Seiten
Springer London (Verlag)
978-1-84628-081-8 (ISBN)

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Short and concise, clinically-oriented book with special emphasis on treatments: drug, physical, operative or psychotherapeutic

An overview of the most important syndromes, each with explanatory clinical descriptions and illustrations makes it an easy-to-use reference

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After headache, vertigo and dizziness is the second most common complaint of patients. Vertigo is not a disease entity, but rather an unspecific syndrome consisting of various disorders with different causes. Most syndromes of vertigo can only be correctly diagnosed by means of a careful medical history and physical examination of the patient. The majority of these cases have a benign cause, a favorable natural course, and a positive response to therapy.This short and concise, clinically-oriented book is for physicians of different specializations who treat patients with vertigo including neurologists and ENT specialists. Easy-to-use, it has an overview of the most important syndromes of vertigo, each with explanatory clinical descriptions and illustrations.Target market: Physicians of different specializations who treat patients with vertigo including neurologists, neurootologic specialists, neuroophthalmology, otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, ophthalmology and ENT specialists, and general medicine practitioners.

Inhalt

1INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

1.1Vertigo or dizziness: multisensory syndromes

1.2Patient history

1.3Neuro-ophthalmological and neuro-otological examination

1.4Apparative examinations
1.4.1Electronystagmography (ENG)
1.4.2Video-oculography
1.4.3Neuro-orthoptic and psychophysical procedures
1.4.4Audiometry
1.4.5Other additional apparative examinations
1.4.6Imaging of the petrous bone, the cerebellopontine angle, and the brainstem by means of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

1.5General principles of therapy


2PERIPHERAL VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO

2.1Benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV)
2.1.1Patient history
2.1.2Clinical features and course
2.1.3Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles
2.1.4Pragmatic therapy
2.1.5BPPV of the horizontal canal (h-BPPV)
2.1.6Differential diagnosis and clinical problems
2.1.7Central positional vertigo / nystagmus

2.2Vestibular neuritis (acute partial unilateral vestibular failure)
2.2.1Patient history
2.2.2Clinical features and course
2.2.3Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles
2.2.4Pragmatic therapy
2.2.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems

2.3Menière’s disease
2.3.1Patient history
2.3.2Clinical syndrome and course
2.3.3Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles
2.3.4Pragmatic therapy
2.3.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems

2.4Vestibular paroxysmia
2.4.1Patient history
2.4.2Clinical aspects and course
2.4.3Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles
2.4.4Pragmatic therapy
2.4.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems

2.5Bilateral vestibulopathy
2.5.1Patient history
2.5.2Clinical aspects and natural course
2.5.3Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles
2.5.4Pragmatic therapy
2.5.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems

2.6Perilymph fistulas
2.6.1Patient history
2.6.2Clinical aspects and course
2.6.3Pathophysiology and therapeuticprinciples
2.6.4Pragmatic therapy
2.6.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems


3CENTRAL VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO

3.1Central vestibular syndromes
3.1.1Clinical aspects, course of disease, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles
3.1.2Central vestibular syndromes in the three planes of action of the vestibulo-ocular reflex

3.2Basilar migraine / vestibular migraine
3.2.1Patient history
3.2.2Clinical aspects and course
3.2.3Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles
3.2.4Pragmatic therapy
3.2.5Ineffective treatments
3.2.6Differential diagnosis and clinical problems


4TRAUMATIC FORMS OF VERTIGO

4.1Traumatic peripheral vestibular dizziness

4.2Traumatic central vestibular forms of vertigo

4.3Traumatic cervical vertigo

4.4Post-traumatic psychogenic vertigo


5PSYCHOGENIC FORMS OF VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS

5.1Phobic postural vertigo
5.1.1Patient history
5.1.2Clinical aspects and course of the illness
5.1.3Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles
5.1.4Pragmatic therapy
5.1.5Differential diagnosis and clinical problems


6 VARIOUS VERTIGO SYNDROMES

6.1 Vertigo / dizziness in childhood and hereditary vertigo syndromes
6.1.1Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
6.1.2Familial episodic ataxia types 1 and 2
6.1.3Motion sickness

6.2Drug-induced vertigo

6.3Cervicogenic vertigo

6.4Motion sickness
6.4.1Clinical aspects and pathogenesis
6.4.2Course and therapy
6.4.3Pragmatic therapy

6.5Height vertigo
6.5.1Syndromal aspects and pathogenesis
6.5.2Course and therapy

Index
List of videos

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2007
• Zusatzinfo: X, 148 p. 3 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Augenheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► HNO-Heilkunde
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Schlagworte: Brainstem • Diagnosis • Dizziness • Head and Neck Surgery • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) • Medicine • migraine • Neurology • Nystagmus • Otolaryngology • Physiology • therapy • Tomography • Trauma • Treatment • Vertigo
• ISBN-10: 1-84628-081-8 / 1846280818
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-081-8 / 9781846280818