Short and concise, clinically-oriented book with special emphasis on treatments: drug, physical, operative or psychotherapeutic Accompanying DVD presents over 60 video clips of typical case histories An overview of the most important syndromes, each with explanatory clinical descriptions and illustrations makes it an easy-to-use reference
1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1.1 Vertigo or dizziness: multisensory
syndromes 1.2 Patient history 1.3 Neuro-ophthalmological and
neuro-otological examination 1.4 Apparative examinations
1.4.1 Electronystagmography (ENG) 1.4.2 Video-oculography
1.4.3 Neuro-orthoptic and psychophysical procedures 1.4.4 Audiometry
1.4.5 Other additional apparative examinations 1.4.6 Imaging of the petrous
bone, the cerebellopontine angle, and the brainstem by means of computed
tomography and magnetic resonance imaging 1.5 General principles of
therapy 2 PERIPHERAL VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO 2.1 Benign
paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV) 2.1.1 Patient history 2.1.2 Clinical
features and course 2.1.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles
2.1.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.1.5 BPPV of the horizontal canal (h-BPPV)
2.1.6 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.1.7 Central positional
vertigo / nystagmus 2.2 Vestibular neuritis (acute partial unilateral
vestibular failure) 2.2.1 Patient history 2.2.2 Clinical features and
course 2.2.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 2.2.4 Pragmatic
therapy 2.2.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.3 Meniere's
disease 2.3.1 Patient history 2.3.2 Clinical syndrome and course
2.3.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 2.3.4 Pragmatic
therapy 2.3.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.4 Vestibular
paroxysmia 2.4.1 Patient history 2.4.2 Clinical aspects and course
2.4.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 2.4.4 Pragmatic
therapy 2.4.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.5 Bilateral
vestibulopathy 2.5.1 Patient history 2.5.2 Clinical aspects and natural
course 2.5.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles
2.5.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.5.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems
2.6 Perilymph fistulas 2.6.1 Patient history 2.6.2 Clinical aspects and
course 2.6.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 2.6.4 Pragmatic
therapy 2.6.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 3 CENTRAL
VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO 3.1 Central vestibular syndromes
3.1.1 Clinical aspects, course of disease, pathophysiology, and therapeutic
principles 3.1.2 Central vestibular syndromes in the three planes of action
of the vestibulo-ocular reflex 3.2 Basilar migraine / vestibular migraine
3.2.1 Patient history 3.2.2 Clinical aspects and course
3.2.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 3.2.4 Pragmatic therapy
3.2.5 Ineffective treatments 3.2.6 Differential diagnosis and clinical
problems 4 TRAUMATIC FORMS OF VERTIGO 4.1 Traumatic peripheral
vestibular dizziness 4.2 Traumatic central vestibular forms of vertigo
4.3 Traumatic cervical vertigo 4.4 Post-traumatic psychogenic vertigo
5 PSYCHOGENIC FORMS OF VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS 5.1 Phobic postural vertigo
5.1.1 Patient history 5.1.2 Clinical aspects and course of the illness
5.1.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 5.1.4 Pragmatic therapy
5.1.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 6 VARIOUS VERTIGO
SYNDROMES 6.1 Vertigo / dizziness in childhood and hereditary vertigo
syndromes 6.1.1 Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood 6.1.2 Familial
episodic ataxia types 1 and 2 6.1.3 Motion sickness 6.2 Drug-induced
vertigo 6.3 Cervicogenic vertigo 6.4 Motion sickness 6.4.1 Clinical
aspects and pathogenesis 6.4.2 Course and therapy 6.4.3 Pragmatic therapy
6.5 Height vertigo 6.5.1 Syndromal aspects and pathogenesis 6.5.2 Course
and therapy Index List of videos
