Vertigo: medical causes

Vestibular causes

• Meniere’s disease: the episodes last 20 minutes to hours
• Benign paroxysmal peripheral vertigo (BPPV)
• Perilymph fistula
• Superior canal dehiscence
• Autoimmune inner ear disease
• Otosclerosis
• Vestibular paroxysmia (VP): see Neurochecklists: “Vestibular paroxysmia”

Neurological causes

Systemic causes

References

1. Lempert T. Recurrent spontaneous attacks of dizziness. Continuum (Minneap Minn) 2012; 18:1086-1001.
2. Halmagyi GM. Diagnosis and management of vertigo. Clin Med 2005; 5:159-165.
3. Dunniway HM, Welling DB. Intracranial tumors mimicking benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1998; 118:429-436.
4. Oh AK, Lee H, Jen JC, Corona S, Jacobson KM, Baloh RW. Familial benign recurrent vertigo. Am J Med Genet 2001; 100:287-291.
5. Baloh RW. Episodic vertigo: central nervous system causes. Curr Opin Neurol 2002, 15:17-21.
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Related checklists

• Vertigo: drug-induced
• Vertigo: types
• Vertigo: assessments