Vertigo: types

Evidence-based neurology checklist on vertigo: types: Peripheral vertigo This is always transient It is sudden onset It is worsened by head movement It is fatigable It can be suppressed by visual fixation It is never vertical Central vertigo Single-episode vertigo with hearing loss: causes…

Peripheral vertigo

  • This is always transient
  • It is sudden onset
  • It is worsened by head movement
  • It is fatigable
  • It can be suppressed by visual fixation
  • It is never vertical

Central vertigo

Single-episode vertigo with hearing loss: causes

Single-episode vertigo without hearing loss: cause

Recurrent vertigo with hearing loss: causes

Recurrent vertigo without hearing loss: causes

Provoked vertigo: types

References

  1. Lee AT. Diagnosing the cause of vertigo: a practical approach. Hong Kong Med J 2012; 18:327-332.
  2. Soto-Varela A, Arán-González I, López-Escámez JA, et al. Peripheral vertigo classification of the Otoneurology Committee of the Spanish Otorhinolaryngology Society: diagnostic agreement and update (version 2-2011). Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp 2012; 63:125-131.
  3. Bisdorff A, Von Brevern M, Lempert T, Newman-Toker DE. Classification of vestibular symptoms: towards an international classification of vestibular disorders. J Vestib Res 2009; 19:1-3.
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