Interpretation of Vertigo Cases

This book includes 35 vertigo cases, which covers typical cases, difficult cases and rare cases from the department of otorhinolaryngology, neurology, emergency department, geriatrics, ophthalmology, and other disciplines. In each case, it has uniform structure, which includes summary of medical records, case study and case view.

This book starts from peripheral vertigo, which is the most common vertigo disease, and belong to vestibular vertigo. It also covers non-vestibular vertigo, which is rare and might be ignored to get timely diagnosis and treatment. In addition, it introduces the patient who have multiple vertigo diseases, which are difficult to diagnosis and treatment, but also easy to be missed or misdiagnosed.

This book will be helpful to deeply understand vertigo diseases and improve the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo diseases.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Peripheral vestibular disorders.- Central vestibular disorders.- Orthostatic hypotensive dizziness .- Orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in children with paroxysmal vertigo as the main complaint.- Swallowing syncope.- Recurrent vertigo caused by swallowing syncope paraneoplastic syndrome.- Neuromyelitis spectrum of optic disease with dizziness as the main clinical manifestation.- Acute medulla oblongata infarction secondary to Hunt syndrome.- Exercise disease desensitization therapy.

Editor Xizheng Shan and Entong Wang, are the professors at the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Electric Power Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.