Full Description
The third edition of this successful book has been fully revised, expanded and updated to reflect the recent advances in vertigo and dizziness, especially with regard to current classifications and clinical trials. The book starts by covering the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology of the vestibular and the ocular motor systems. It provides guidance on how to take the patient history, laboratory and imaging analysis and principles of therapy exploring different therapeutic strategies. It then goes on to cover in detail the diagnosis and current treatment of peripheral, central and functional vestibular disorders as well as miscellaneous rare vestibular syndromes.
Using a uniform chapter style to address the various diseases and adopting a reader-friendly educational format, this is an indispensable guide for clinicians who treat patients with vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders. Hundreds of patient videos are included for the diseases demonstrating typical patient histories and clinical findings. Chapters have also been expanded to discuss the current classification and therapies as well as new and ongoing clinical trials with ample new figures.
Written by three top experts in the field, this book is aimed at a broad range of medical specialists, namely neurologists, ENT specialists, neuro-otologists, ophthalmologists, physiotherapists, general practitioners as well as residents and students.
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Contents
1.Introductory remarks and background.- Anatomy and physiology of the vestibular and the ocular motor system.- How to take the patient history.- How to examine the vestibular and the ocular motor system.- Laboratory examinations .- Imaging.- General principles of therapy,.- vestibular exercises and rehabilitation, pharmacotherapy, surgery, and psychological and behavioural treatment.- 2. Peripheral vestibular disorders.- Introduction and classification.- Bilateral vestibulopathy.- Acute unilateral vestibulopathy.- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.- Menière's disease.- Vestibular paroxysmia.- Superior canal dehiscence syndrome.- Perilymph fistula.- Current therapy .- 3. Central vestibular disorders.- Acute peripheral vs acute central vestibular syndromes .- Classification of central vestibular disorders.- Cerebellar dizziness.- Vestibular migraine.- vestibular migraine, and current clinical trials.- Central types of nystagmus.- Cerebellar dizziness .- Cerebellar ataxias..- 4. Functional dizziness.- Persistent postural perceptual dizziness .- Phobic postural dizziness .- Visual dizziness.- 5. Various Vertigo Syndromes.- Traumatic vertigo.- Vertigo in childhood.- Cervicogenic vertigo.- Drug-induced dizziness.- Mal de débarquement syndrome.- Motion sickness.- Height vertigo and acrophobia.
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