Diagnosaurus
Vertigo
DDx
By episode duration
- Auditory symptoms present
- Seconds: perilymphatic fistula
- Hours: endolymphatic hydrops (Ménière's disease, syphilis)
- Days: labyrinthitis, labyrinthine concussion (head trauma)
- Months: acoustic neuroma, ototoxicity
- Auditory symptoms absent
- Seconds: positioning vertigo (cupulolithiasis), vertebrobasilar insufficiency, cervical vertigo (head-extension vertigo), diplopia
- Hours: recurrent vestibulopathy (Ménière's disease without auditory symptoms), vestibular migraine
- Days: vestibular neuronitis, head trauma
- Months: vertebrobasilar insufficiency, arteriovenous malformation, brainstem or cerebellar tumor, cerebellar degeneration, multiple sclerosis, vertebrobasilar migraine
- Anticonvulsants (eg, phenytoin), antibiotics (eg, aminoglycosides, doxycycline, metronidazole), hypnotics (eg, diazepam), analgesics (eg, aspirin), alcohol
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Vertigo." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114341/all/Vertigo.
Zeiger RFR. Vertigo. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114341/all/Vertigo. Accessed April 27, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Vertigo. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114341/all/Vertigo
Zeiger RFR. Vertigo [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 April 27]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114341/all/Vertigo.
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