Persistent dizziness

Persistent continuous dizziness: pathophysiology and treatment.

Persistent blurred vision and oscillopsia have a negative impact on quality of life, and the burden of these symptoms is more severe than that of rotationally vertiginous attack. We doctors should take patients' pain as our own and treat them accordingly. However, because these cases are rather rare in daily clinical experience, in reality we tend to treat these patients as neurosis cases and s...

Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD): a common, characteristic and treatable cause of chronic dizziness.

Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is a newly defined diagnostic syndrome that unifies key features of chronic subjective dizziness, phobic postural vertigo and related disorders. It describes a common chronic dysfunction of the vestibular system and brain that produces persistent dizziness, non-spinning vertigo and/or unsteadiness. The disorder constitutes a long-term maladaptatio...

Causes of persistent dizziness in elderly patients in primary care.

PURPOSE Although dizzy patients are predominantly seen in primary care, most diagnostic studies on dizziness have been performed among patients in secondary or tertiary care. Our objective was to describe subtypes of dizziness in elderly patients in primary care and to assess contributory causes of dizziness. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional diagnostic study among elderly patients in th...

Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness: a useful new syndrome

Clinical characteristics of patients with persistent postural-perceptual dizziness.

INTRODUCTION Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness is the dizziness that lasts for over three months with no clinical explanation for its persistence. The patient's motor response pattern presents changes and most patients manifest significant anxiety. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with persistent postural and perceptual dizziness. METHODS statistical ana...