[How to manage vertigo in adult?]

[How to manage vertigo in adult?]
Presse Med. 2017 Oct 28;:
Authors: Vuong Chaney H, Rohmer D, Charpiot A
Abstract
The interrogation and the clinical examination are critical in the research of vertigo etiology. In the context of vertigo, the vital emergencies are of neurological and vascular origins. It is therefore necessary to be able to identify them quickly and simply. Vertigo is a symptom to relieve and the cause is to be diagnosed. Careful questioning combined with neurological examination, nystagmus study, Halmagyi test and skew deviation search are more reliable than imaging in the first 48hours to detect a stroke. There are 12% false negatives in cerebral MRI and 74% false negative in cerebral CT-scan in the first 48hours of an ischemic stroke. Labyrinth emergencies are infectious labyrinthitis, perilymphatic fistula and aeroembolism of the vestibule.
PMID: 29089218 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Presse Medicale - October 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Vuong Chaney H, Rohmer D, Charpiot A Tags: Presse Med Source Type: research