Vestibular paroxysmia (VP): differential diagnosis
Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .
Vestibular paroxysmia (VP): differential diagnosis. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), Meniere’s disease. Fully referenced neurology checklist.
Otological differentials
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
- Meniere’s disease
- Tumarkin’s otolithic crisis
- Superior canal dehiscence syndrome (Minor’s syndrome)
- Perilymph fistula
Neurological differentials
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Psychiatric differentials
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References
- Strupp M, Lopez-Escamez JA, Kim JS, et al. Vestibular paroxysmia: diagnostic criteria. J Vestib Res 2016; 26:409-415.
- Ori M, Gambacorta V, Ricci G, Faralli M. Vestibular paroxysmia in vestibular neuritis: a case report. Audiol Res 2018; 8:206.
- Brandt T, Strupp M, Dieterich M. Vestibular paroxysmia: a treatable neurovascular cross-compression syndrome. J Neurol 2016; 263(Suppl 1):S90-S96.
- Ward BK, Gold DR. Tinnitus, oscillopsia, and hyperventilation-induced nystagmus: vestibular paroxysmia. Open J Clin Med Case Rep 2016; 2(7) pii: 1100.
