2,609 results match your criteria: "Central Vertigo"

Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether artificial intelligence can improve the diagnostic accuracy of vertigo related diseases.

Experimental Design: Based on the clinical guidelines, clinical symptoms and laboratory test results were extracted from electronic medical records as variables. These variables were then input into a machine learning diagnostic model for classification and diagnosis.

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Nystagmus, characterized by involuntary eye movements, can arise from several causes, with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo being the most prevalent. Additionally, central lesions such as tumors may also induce nystagmus. This case report describes the amelioration of vertical nystagmus in a patient with advanced glioma after treatment with the GABAergic drug baclofen.

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Objective: To explore alterations in functional connectivity (FC) focusing on hippocampal subfields in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) patients with residual dizziness (RD) after successful canalith repositioning procedure (CRP).

Methods: We conducted resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 95 BPPV patients, comprising 50 patients with RD and 45 without. Seed-to-voxel and seed-to-seed analyses were employed to examine changes in FC between the two groups.

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: Skull vibration-induced nystagmus (SVIN) has become a validated tool for evaluating the vestibular function. The presence of SVIN is a useful indicator of the asymmetry of vestibular function between the two ears. In unilateral vestibular loss, a 100 Hz bone-conducted vibration given to either mastoid immediately causes a primarily horizontal nystagmus.

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Unilateral vestibular hypofunction (UVH) in cases of insufficient central nervous system compensation leads to chronic dizziness. A customized vestibular rehabilitation (VR) program is more beneficial than a generic set of exercises for patients with chronic UVH. The purpose of the present study is to compare a customized remotely supervised VR program with a customized unsupervised VR program in chronic UVH patients.

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Purpose: Sarcoidosis, a multi-organ granulomatous disease, occasionally involves the nervous system, presenting as neurosarcoidosis. The following case demonstrates a potential association between COVID-19 and brain and spinal cord injury mimicking neurosarcoidosis.

Case Description: A 51-year-old woman presented with persistent holocranial headache, nausea, vertigo, and neurological deficits one month after a COVID-19 hospitalization.

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A preliminary study of fMRI and the relationship with depression and anxiety in Meniere's patients.

Am J Otolaryngol

December 2024

Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, PR China. Electronic address:

Purpose: To examine alterations in Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent (BOLD) resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) signals, utilizing regional homogeneity (ReHo) and fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) metrics, within activated brain regions. Additionally, this study aims to explore the relationship between these neural changes and clinical characteristics, as well as emotional states, in patients diagnosed with unilateral Meniere's disease (MD).

Method: The study included 24 patients diagnosed with left Meniere's disease (L-MD), 25 patients diagnosed with right Meniere's disease (R-MD), and 23 healthy control subjects.

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Article Synopsis
  • The paper presents a case study of a 56-year-old man with a small cavernous hemangioma, initially considered for surgery due to vestibular symptoms.
  • A multidisciplinary approach revealed that the patient's symptoms were primarily due to peripheral vestibular dysfunction, not the hemangioma itself.
  • The study emphasizes the effectiveness of specific diagnostic tests in guiding treatment and the value of collaboration among different medical specialties to avoid unnecessary surgeries.
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The Distribution and Therapeutic Effectiveness of Clinical Unilateral Ménière's Disease Phenotypes.

Clin Otolaryngol

December 2024

Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.

Objectives: The first purpose of this study was to ascertain the distribution of unilateral Ménière's disease (MD) clinical subgroups in China and compare with the population reported in Europe and the United States. The second purpose was to investigate the effectiveness in different clinical phenotypes.

Methods: Participants were categorised into one of five subtypes using a previously reported classification scheme based on cluster analysis.

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Vestibular Syncope and Acute Peripheral Vestibular Deficit: A Case Report.

Clin Case Rep

December 2024

Audiology Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milan Italy.

Vestibular syncope is a rare condition in which vertigo may cause syncopal attacks; however, the term has been associated with confusion because it has been ascribed to completely different vestibular and neurological conditions, from dizziness to Menière disease (MD), to the neurovegetative symptoms in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and central vertebrobasilar hyperfusion. A 75-year-old woman with vasodepressive vasovagal syncope, confirmed by a tilt test with trinitrine administration, was referred for an audiological and vestibular assessment showing an acute unilateral peripheral vestibular deficit on the right side. The diagnosis is peripheral acute vestibular deficits.

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  • Spatial memory and orientation issues are often early signs of dementia, making early detection important for effective treatment.
  • The study involved 135 participants with varying cognitive abilities, who were assessed using subjective and objective spatial orientation tests, ensuring they had normal vestibular function.
  • Results showed a significant correlation between self-reported spatial discomfort and actual spatial impairment, with cognitively impaired individuals experiencing greater discomfort and higher angular deviations in tasks demanding spatial transformation.
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This study aims to establish a set of normal values for the objective evaluation of ocular movements using videonystagmography (VNG). Thirty individuals aged between 18 and 50 years, with no history of vestibular symptoms, recurrent headaches, central nervous system (CNS) symptoms, or cochlear symptoms, were selected. The assessment of five types of ocular movements (saccades, pursuit, optokinetic tests, spontaneous nystagmus, and gaze tests) were conducted using VNG.

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Introduction And Importance: The inner ear is considered an 'end organ' since its vascular supply comes from one terminal artery, making the labyrinth especially vulnerable to ischemia, causing loss of auditory and vestibular function with variable clinical patterns according to the different arterial distribution in the inner ear and which vascular branches are concerned by the embolism.

Case Presentation: We report a misleading case of central vascular vertigo caused by a labyrinthine infarction resulting from an embolic vertebral artery, which manifested in a typical peripheral clinical presentation mimicking a vestibular neuritis.

Clinical Discussion: Vertigo is the result of asymmetrical responses from the vestibules of both ears resulting from any disruption along the complex vestibular pathways, whether peripheral or central.

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Vertigo (or dizziness) is one of the most common symptoms in clinical practice. The misdiagnosis rate of vertigo diseases is high due to the factors that vertigo disorders involve multiple systems and organs throughout the body with a wide range of pathogenesis, and different kind of vertigo diseases often present with overlapping clinical presentation. In recent years, scholars have conducted many explorations in the diagnosis model of vertigo disorders, the identification model of high-risk central vertigo, or the combination of diagnostic tests such as the TiTrATE diagnostic model for vertigo disorders (Newman-Toker and Edlow, 2015), the ATTEST differential diagnosis model for acute vertigo (Gurley and Edlow, 2019); the application of the ABCD2 score to assess the risk of high-risk vertigo (Navi et al, 2012), and the "TriAGe+" score to assess the risk of stroke in vertigo patients (Kuroda et al, 2017); HINTS battery (Kattah et al, 2009), HINTS+ battery (Newman-Toker et al, 2013), and STANDING battery (Vanni et al, 2014) for acute serious vestibular disorders.

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Atypical Signs and Symptoms of Giant Cell Arteritis: A Systematic Review.

J Gen Intern Med

October 2024

Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates atypical signs and symptoms of giant cell arteritis (GCA), which can delay treatment and lead to complications.
  • 429 research articles were analyzed, revealing that 18% of patients had only atypical features, while the majority also showed typical symptoms.
  • Atypical patients generally sought medical help earlier, but those with only atypical signs faced longer delays in starting treatment.*
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Background: After a stroke many people experience hemiparesis, resulting in walking difficulties which affects independence, mobility, and participation in activities of daily living. Activating the nociceptive withdrawal reflex (NWR) during gait training aims to support the initiation and facilitation of the swing phase of the paretic leg. The aim of this review is to investigate the orthotic and therapeutic effects of a NWR stimulation intervention to improve gait in patients after a stroke.

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Background: CLCN2-related leukoencephalopathy (CC2L) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by biallelic variants of CLCN2, which encodes chloride channel 2. Although CC2L is associated with distinct radiological features, it presents with a wide range of clinical features.

Case Presentation: A 34-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a sudden onset of vertigo with headache.

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A novel gene variant in the voltage-dependent Kv3.3 channel in an atypical form of SCA13 with dominant central vertigo.

Front Cell Neurosci

October 2024

Institute for Physiology and Pathophysiology and Center for Mind Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

Potassium channel mutations play an important role in neurological diseases, such as spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA). SCA is a heterogeneous autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disorder with multiple sub-entities, such as SCA13, which is characterized by mutations in the voltage-gated potassium channel Kv3.3 ().

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Article Synopsis
  • * In a study of 109 patients, central dizziness was primarily linked to cerebral infarctions, whereas peripheral cases were associated with conditions like vestibular neuronitis and Meniere's disease; notable differences in balance disorders were also observed.
  • * The R-cVR algorithm showed strong diagnostic accuracy when compared to MRI results, making it a valuable tool for general practitioners to identify dizziness types without needing specialized equipment.
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Trigeminal cervical complex: A neural network affecting the head and neck.

Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis

October 2024

Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, 11-0236, Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address:

Article Synopsis
  • The study introduces the trigeminal cervical complex (TCC) as a framework for understanding the trigeminal nerve's role in otolaryngologic symptoms and myofascial pain syndromes in the head and neck.
  • A comprehensive narrative review analyzed data from 66 studies, focusing on afferent connections from cranial nerves to the TCC and their associated pathways.
  • The authors suggest that sensitization of the TCC, influenced by neurotransmitter transmission, helps explain various clinical symptoms like otalgia, tinnitus, and bruxism, which often lack clear medical explanations.
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