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Tinnitus is the impression of sound when there is no external stimulus present. The sound can often be described as a buzzing or ringing in the ears. It can either be continuous or intermittent, non-pulsatile or pulsatile.
Nystagmus is the uncontrollable, rapid movement of the eyes.
While vertigo is essentially dizziness, feelings can mean different things to different people. There are a few things you can ask the patient to differentiate and clarify the common divisions of dizziness.
Acoustic Neuroma is a non-cancerous inner ear tumor. This essentially affects your hearing and balance. It constitutes the bulk of cerebellopontine angle tumors. And the majority of the tumors are unilateral.
Menier’s disease is an inner ear disorder characterized by a combination of buzzing tinnitus, hearing loss, and pressure sensation with vertigo. It’s a rare disorder that rarely affects bilateral ears. The symptoms onset between the 3rd and 5th decade of life.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is one of the most common types of vestibular disorders.
Vestibular disorders disturb the body’s balance system. This is caused by some sort of damage in the vestibular system of the inner ear, the central nervous system processing systems, or even both.
Vestibular neuritis is an inflammation of the inner ear or vestibulocochlear nerve or both. This disease is more prevalent in middle-aged adults.
The first step in epley manoevure is the Dix-Hallpike test.
An “uncontrolled” immune system response is the defining characteristic of autoimmune inner ear disease, which is characterized by bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
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