
| Acknowledgements List of tables List of video clips Introduction: How to use this book 1 Essential anatomy and functions of the balance system Introduction Anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system Eye movements Multisensory integration 2 Symptoms and examination of the patient with vertigo and dizziness Symptoms Essentials of the clinical examination Eye-movement examination Vestibular eye movements Positional manoeuvres Frenzel's glasses Posture and gait Clinical assessment of hearing Orthostatic blood pressure LabOratory examinations Separating peripheral from central vestibular lesions Imaging procedures in dizzy patients 3 A single episode of prolonged vertigo Vestibular neuritis Brainstem and cerebellar lesions First attack of migrainous vertigo First attack of Meniere's disease Other causes of acute persistent vertigo What to do if you don't have a clue 4 Recurrent vertigo and dizziness Recurrent vertigo Migrainous vertigo Benign recurrent vertigo Meniere's disease Vertigo due to vertebrobasilar transient ischaemic attack Paroxysmal recurrent vertigo: vascular compression of the eighth nerve? Perilymph fistula Rare causes of recurrent vertigo What to do if you don't have a clue Recurrent dizziness Orthostatic hypotension Cardiac arrhythmia Psychogenic dizziness Drug-induced dizziness Other causes of recurrent dizziness What to do if you don't have a clue 5 Positional vertigo Posterior-canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Horizontal-canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: canalolithiasis type Horizontal-canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: cupulolithiasis type Migrainous vertigo Central positional vertigo Other causes of positional vertigo What to do if you don't have a clue 6 Chronic dizziness and unsteadiness The origin of chronic dizziness Patients with a past history of vertigo Visual vertigo Motorist disorientation syndrome Psychological presentations …… 7 Dizziness,imbalance and falls in the elderly 8 Treatment of the dizzy patient Further reading Index |
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