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A LOGICAL APPROACH TO THE DIZZY
PATIENT
  • Dizziness and balance disorders center
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Dizziness- Logical Approach -strategy for lecture
  • Go into some basic principles
  • applications and testing
  • get into a few prominent diagnoses
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DIZZINESS
  • EIGHT MILLION PHYSICIAN VISITS/YR
  • AVERAGE: 5 VISITS WITHOUT RESOLUTION OF PROBLEM
  • LOSS OF LIVLIHOOD, FALLS INJURIES
  • SYSTEMATIC APPROACH
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DIZZINESS
  • VERTIGO
  • LIGHT-HEADEDNESS
  • DYSEQUALIBRIUM
  • GAIT DYSFUNCTION
  • NEAR SYNCOPE
  • ANXIETY
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DIZZINESS:
  • A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH
  • AREAS OF EXPERTISE
    • NEUROLOGIST
    • OTOLOGIST
    • REHAB SPECIALIST
  • SHUNTING
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VESTIBULO-OCULAR REFLEX (VOR)
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Vertigo or not?
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Vertigo DDx
  • BPPV
  • Meniere’s
  • Vestibular neuritis
  • Bilateral vestibular Loss
  • Post-traumatic vertigo (labyrinthine concussion)
  • Perilymph fistula
  • Migraine and epilepsy
  • Cerebro-vascular Disease
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Dizziness Battery
  • Orthostatics and both arms
  • Hallpike
  • Fukada
  • Head Thrust
  • Head Shake
  • Romberg (conventional, tandem, foam pad)
  • Fistula test
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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
  • Recurrent
  • One ear down position
  • Positive Hallpike
  • Transitory positional vertigo
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BPPV
  • Posterior  nystagmus are delayed by approximately 15 seconds (latency), peak in 20-30 seconds, and then decay, with complete resolution of symptoms.
  •  Symptoms and reversed nystagmus may recur when the patient is brought to a sitting position.Nystagmus fatigues on repeated trials. Peripheral nystagmus is latent, paroxysmal, geotropic, reversible, and fatigable.
  • Horizontal canal BPPV nystagmus is purely horizontal and asymmetric, with its stronger component beating toward the diseased canal.
  •  Anterior canal nystagmus is rotary, with its vertical component beating downward. The vertical component of benign paroxysmal positioning nystagmus (BPPN) is best observed by asking the patient to move the eyes away from the down-most (tested) ear.
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Logroll maneuver for horiz canal
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Paroxysmal psychological Vertigo
  • Form of Panic Attack
  • Sensory overload
  • “Supermarket Syndrome
  • Sensory Overload
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Meniere’s
  • Severe vertigo and vomiting
  • Hearing Loss
  • Fullness
  • unilateral Tinnitus
  • Endolymphatic Hydrops
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Vestibular Rehabilitation
  • Compensations
    • Avoidance (BPPV)
    • Substitution (Bilateral Vestibular Loss)
    • Plasticity (Vestibular Neuritis)
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VESTIBULAR REHABILITATION
  • HABITUATION
  • ADAPTATION OF OTHER SENSORY SYSTEMS
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Neurologic Syndromes
  • MS
  • PD
  • Aging
  • Multi-sensory Deficit
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Multiple Sclerosis
  • May present as typical peripheral vestibulpathy
  • ? lesion at root entry zone
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Multi-sensory deficit
  • Aging
  • Loss of neurons in CNS
    • degenerative
    • vascular
  • Arthritis
  • Peripheral nerve dysfunction
  • Vestibular dysfunction
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Multi-sensory deficit
  • Physical therapy
    • falls prevention
    • muscle strengthening
    • trying out assistive devices
    • minimizing deficits
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Acoustic Neuroma
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Acoustic Neuroma
  • Unilateral Hearing Loss
  • VII and V
  • Unsteadiness rarely paroxysmal vertigo
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Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency
  • Vertigo
  • Diplopia
  • Dysarthria
  • Dysphagia
  • Ataxia
  • Sensory or Motor Loss
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Post-Traumatic Vertigo
  • BPPV
  • Meniere’s
  • “Cervical” vertigo
  • Perilymph fistula
  • Factitious (psychological) vertigo
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Migraine Associated Vertigo
  • Headache
  • Bickerstaff
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Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
  • Hearing Loss
  • Vertigo
  • Bilateral “meniere’s”
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AIED
  • Anti HSP-70
  • Anti Raji Cell
  • Sed, ANA, RF, C1Q, FTA, Lyme, Thyroids
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Perilymph Fistula
  • Traumatic Communication betw inner and middle ear
  • Pressure effect
  • Tullio: vertigo and nystagmus to loud sound
  • strain or blowing nose
  • Fistula test
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Bilateral Vestibular Loss
  • Oscillopsia
  • Visual Dependence
  • Aminoglycosides
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MOTION SICKNESS
  • CHRONIC SENSITIVITY TO MOTION
  • OTHER PERSON DRIVING
  • DISCOMFORT WITH MOTION
  • VESTIBULAR REHAB: HABITUATION
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Mal de Debarquement
  • Persistence of perception of motion after a cruise
  • Psychophysiological (?)