Vertigo: medical causes

Written and reviewed by Dr Ibrahim Imam, Consultant Neurologist. Last reviewed .

Vertigo: medical causes. Meniere’s disease: the episodes last 20 minutes to hours. Fully referenced neurology checklist.

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

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Systemic causes

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References

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  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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