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Approach to Dizziness
December 4, 2001Swedish Family MedicineDobrina Okorn, MD
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Clinical Scenario
It’s 2:50pm and your 2:45 is being placed in a room. Your next patient is scheduled at 3:00pm and you’ve given up trying to dictate between patients. Your nurse hands you the chart, on the front of which the chief complaint and blood pressure are written: “Dizziness”, 148/86. You emit an almost-silent groan and gather your thoughts before entering the room.
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Differential
40% Peripheral vestibular dysfunction10% Central brainstem vestibular lesion 25% Presyncope or disequilibrium15% Psychiatric disorder10% Unknown cause
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Case continues...
You quickly review the chart and see that the pt is a 47 yo gentleman with no significant PMH (he was last seen one year ago for a mole removal) and is on no medications; you enter the room.
He tells you that last week, all of a sudden, he was attacked by episodes of dizziness -- yeah, the room was spinning around him, how did you know? -- sometimes just while standing still, sometimes when he turned over in bed. Each lasted less than a minute or two and then he’d be fine.
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Vestibular dysfunction...
Peripheral causes canalithiasis (BPPV) --
50% vestibular neuronitis
(labyrinthitis) -- 25% Meniere’s disease --
10% trauma drugs
(aminoglycosides)
Central causes vascular
(vertebrobasilar insufficiency) -- 50%
demyelinating (multiple sclerosis)
drugs (anticonvulsants, alcohol, hypnotics)
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Vertigo vs. other types of dizziness
Time course -- vertigo is never continuous
Provoking factors -- spontaneously or with positional changes
Aggravating factors -- all vertigo is made worse by moving the head
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Establishing the cause of vertigo (Pt 1)
Time course BPPV: lasts less than one minute, self-
limited, responds poorly to anti-vertigo drugs Vascular: single episode lasting minutes to
hours; usually due to migraine or to transient ischemia of the labyrinth or brainstem; occasionally Meniere’s disease
Recent onset of more prolonged episodes characteristic of vestibular neuronitis, multiple sclerosis, vertebrobasilar ischemia
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Establishing the cause of vertigo (Pt 2)
Associated symptoms Vertebrobasilar stroke: diplopia, dysarthria,
dysphagia, weakness, numbness Meniere’s disease: aural fullness, deafness,
tinnitus Psych/Panic attack: SOB, palpitations,
diaphoresis Multiple sclerosis: vertigo preceded by other
neurologic dysfunction
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Establishing the cause of vertigo (Pt 3)
Prior risk factors migraine HTN, DM, smoking, PVD head injury psychiatric illness
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Physical exam
Vestibular examNeurologic examSeverity of postural instabilityHearing tests
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Peripheral vs Central Vertigo
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Dix-Hallpike Maneuver
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Peripheral vs Central Nystagmus
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Further studies to evaluate vertigo
MRI/MRA -- distinguishing central causes
Audiometry -- distinguishing peripheral causes Brainstem evoked audiometry -- 90-95%
sens for detecting acoustic neuromas
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Management of Vertigo
Treat the underlying disease migraine vertebrobasilar ischemia multiple sclerosis cerebellar tumors
Meniere’s disease: low salt diet, diureticsVestibular neuronitis (labyrinthitis):
antibiotics rarely needed BPPV: particle-repositioning maneuvers
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Particle-repositioning maneuver
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Management of Vertigo
Treat the underlying disease: migraine vertebrobasilar ischemia multiple sclerosis cerebellar tumors
Meniere’s disease: low salt diet, diureticsVestibular neuronitis (labyrinthitis):
antibiotics rarely needed BPPV: particle-repositioning maneuversDrug therapy, physical therapy
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And the case starts over...
You quickly review the chart and see that the next pt is a 30 yo woman seen multiple times over the past years for LLQ pain, headache, allergies, and intermittent knee pain.
She states “I’ve been feeling dizzy.” It comes and goes, lasts up to 20 minutes, and gradually goes away.
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Nonspecific dizziness
psychiatric disorders major depression 25% generalized anxiety or panic disorder 25% somatization disorder alcohol dependence personality disorder
hyperventilationoverlap with presyncope: CAD, CHF, PE,
dysrhythmias
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And the case begins again...
You walk into the room of a 72 yo gentleman who tells you that he’s been feeling dizzy for the past few months. It happens throughout the day but is even worse when he has to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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Disequilibrium
multisensory disorder due to any combination of: peripheral neuropathy visual impairment musculoskeletal disorder interfering
with gait vestibular disorder cervical spondylosis
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Disequilibrium guidelines
inquire about neurologic and gait disorders
medications, especially antidepressants and anticholinergics
falling or dizziness while driving (needs intervention)
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Presyncope
“nearly blacking out”, “nearly fainting”
lasts seconds to minutesorthostatic hypotensioncardiac arrhythmiasvasovagal attacks
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Summary
Elucidate by history and confirm by physical
Majority of pts have vertigo, followed by nonspecific dizziness and disequilibrium
Most causes are benign and self-limitedSerious causes suspected by unilateral
hearing loss, abnormal neurological exam, or evidence of a central as opposed to peripheral cause of vertigo