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Vertigo Underlying Cause
Common causes
of vertigo include:
Acute hyperventilation
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol intoxication
Anemia
Anxiety
Barotitis media
Benign positional vertigo
Cholesteatoma
Dehydration
Drug side effect
:
Aspirin
Carbamazepine
Chloroquine
Cisplatin
Clomipramine
Enalapril
Erythromycin
Gentamicin
Labetalol
Loop diuretics
Phenytoin
Quinidine
Ear foreign body
Emotional stress
Emphysema
Food allergy
High blood pressure
Hypoglycemia
Influenza
Labyrinthitis
Low blood pressure
Medication side effect
Motion sickness
Otitis media
Postural hypotension
Ruptured eardrum
Sinusitis
Upper respiratory infections
Vasovagal syncope
Vestibular neuronitis
Less common
causes of vertigo include:
Acoustic neuroma
Acromegaly
Addison's disease
Brain tumor
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cerebellar hemorrhage
Cerebral aneurysm
Cerebral hemorrhage
Cervical spondylosis
Concussion
Congestive heart failure
Head injury
Herpes zoster
Malignant hypertension
Meniere's disease
Middle ear surgery:
Placement of tubes to decompress the middle ear space
Migraine headache
Multiple sclerosis
Otosclerosis
Post-concussive syndrome:
Occur in about 10% of people who have a
concussion
Symptoms include persistent
headaches
and
dizziness
Seizure
Spinal cord tumor
Stroke
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Temporal lobe seizure
Theophylline toxicity
TIA
For more information:
Dizziness underlying cause
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Vertigo Anatomy
Related Conditions
Acoustic neuroma
Benign positional vertigo
Labyrinthitis
Meniere's disease
Motion sickness
Vestibular neuronitis
Dehydration Checkup
Vertigo
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Last Updated: Nov 13, 2008
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Authors:
Stephen J. Schueler, MD
;
John H. Beckett, MD
;
D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Vertigo References:
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Kitsko DJ, Dohar JE. Inner ear and facial nerve complications of acute otitis media, including vertigo. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2007 Nov;7(6):444-50.
Lemajic-Komazec S, Komazec Z. Initial evaluation of vertigo. Med Pregl. 2006 Nov-Dec;59(11-12):585-90.
Myrseth E, Pedersen PH, Moller P, Lund-Johansen M. Treatment of vestibular schwannomas. Why, when and how? Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2007;149(7):647-60; discussion 660. Epub 2007 Jun 11.
