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Title: | Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo |
Authors: | Pace Balzan, Elania |
Keywords: | Vertigo -- Diagnosis Labyrinth (Ear) -- Diseases Vertigo -- Patients -- Rehabilitation |
Issue Date: | 1999-12 |
Publisher: | Malta College of Family Doctors |
Citation: | Pace Balzan, E. (1999). Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. It-Tabib tal-Familja, 17, 2-4. |
Abstract: | Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common peripheral vestibular disorders characterised by a brief period of vertigo that occurs when the position of the head is altered with respect to gravity in a particular way: typically when turning over in bed, getting in and out of bed, bending over and straightening up or extending the neck to look up. The condition is important to recognize because the vertigo can be very distressing, and because in most patients the diagnosis is easily made with a positioning test and it can be cured with a simple bedside manouvre. BPPV can result from several inner ear diseases, or head injury; in about half of the cases no cause can be found. The basic features of BPPV and the associated positioning vertigo and nystagmus were described by Robert Barany (1921) but it was not until 1952 that Dix and Hallpike described a provocative positioning manouvre and defined the syndrome clearly. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/21934 |
Appears in Collections: | It-Tabib tal-Familja, Issue 17 It-Tabib tal-Familja, Issue 17 Scholarly Works - FacM&SSur |
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