Current diagnostic procedures for diagnosing vertigo and dizziness
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Modern diagnostic methods such as video head impulse test and cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials allow to measure canal and otolith function quantitatively and objectively. These methods contribute to a complex assessment of the functional integrity of all 5 sensory elements of the vestibular organ for the first time. Moreover, in combination with additional vestibular tests frequency specific and time depended changes of impairments of vestibular sensors and their pathways can be assessed. Over the past few years, new test methods have been established step by step in daily clinical diagnostic of vertigo and dizziness in acute vestibular syndrome and chronic complaints. Modern tests and concepts caused a paradigm shift in vestibular diagnostic. New classifications of vestibular disorders and algorithms provide a high diagnostic certainity and reliability although evidence-based investigations of diagnostic procedures are still missing.
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