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Science articlesVariability of vertigos. Rare benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and its relationship with hypertensive disease
M. Yu. Korkmazov (1), M. A. Lengin (1), A. M. Korkmazov (1)
(1) State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-4-60-64
ABSTRACT
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most frequent diseases of the peripheral vestibular apparatus. The pronounced clinical symptoms and the urgent patient’s condition during vertigo attacks require high-quality therapeutic aid from the doctor. Meanwhile, this vestibular pathology is one of the most difficult from diagnostic and therapeutic viewpoint in the practice of the otolaryngologist, neurologist, cardiologist and other specialists because of the diversity of causally significant mechanisms of BPPV occurrence such as traumatic brain injury, viral labyrinthitis, Meniere’s disease, ototoxic effect of antibiotics, inner ear surgery etc. This article describes the variability and history of vertigo, providing a rare clinical example of interrelation of BPPV in a female patient at the period of hypertensive crisis.
Publication date:
25.06.2017
Keywords:
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, canalolithiasis, cupulolithiasis. For citation:
Korkmazov M. Yu., Lengina M. A., Korkmazov A. M. Variability of vertigos. Rare benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and its relationship with hypertensive disease. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2017;4:60–64. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2017-4-60-64