A prospective, open-label clinical trial was conducted for two aims: first, to evaluate the role of fluvoxamine, one of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, in the treatment of dizziness for the first time and to investigate its effective mechanisms. Second, to test the hypothesis that dizziness in patients without abnormal neuro-otologic findings would be induced by psychiatric disorders r...

OBJECTIVE (1) To characterize long-term dizziness following observation, microsurgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for small to medium-sized vestibular schwannoma (VS) using a validated self-assessment inventory; and (2) to identify clinical variables associated with long-term dizziness handicap. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. SETTING Two independent tertiary acad...

UNLABELLED The epidemiology of dizziness is essential in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence of dizziness in the adult population of São Paulo, its clinical characteristics and level of discomfort. METHOD A prospective cross-sectional study ran from April to October of 2012 by a field questionnaire, totaling 1,960 interviews. The predictor variables assessed were age, g...

Cases of dizziness caused by multiple sclerosis are commonly reported, but those caused by mitochondrial encephalomyopathy have been rarely reported. Particularly, the description of eye nystagmography (ENG) using caloric and optokinetic nystagmus tests has not been reported to date. We encountered the case of a 40-year-old woman with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy who visited us with the chie...

Lin and Bhattachryya analyzed National Health Interview Survey data, and showed that adults reporting dizziness were more likely to have fallen in the past year, and more likely to have been injured by falling. However, both falls and dizziness are more common in the elderly. Thus, it would seem essential to control for age in a study like this. A multivariate analysis could have determined whe...

OBJECTIVE To describe how vestibular rehabilitation influences pain and range of motion among patients with whiplash-associated disorder and dizziness, and to describe whether pain or range of motion correlated with balance performance or self-perceived dizziness handicap. SUBJECTS A total of 29 patients, 20 women and 9 men, age range 22-76 years. METHODS Patients with whiplash-associated d...

PURPOSE Dizziness/vertigo are important public heath care issues especially in elderly patients. Isolated dizziness/vertigo without neurological deficits has seldom been considered a symptom/sign due to vascular origin. Recently, some studies have suggested that vascular origin should be considered in cases of positional vertigo and isolated vertigo or dizziness when the etiology remains unclea...

Fear of heights results in the experience of dizziness and measurable body sway. We investigated the relationship between fear, dizziness, and body sway during height exposure 16 m above ground. Thirty five healthy participants stood on a force-plate to measure sway before, during, and after exposure and an ECG was recorded. Self-report measures were anticipated fear and dizziness before exposu...

This paper presents an evidence-based introduction to assessing and managing the dizzy patient. It is based upon a literature review highlighting current best practice and the clinical experience of the author. Dizziness is common, often chronic and largely untreated, resulting in great personal and economic loss. Serious pathological causes of dizziness may be quickly and effectively screened ...

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...