DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF VERTIGO IN OUTPATIENTS

Dizziness - One of the most common symptom in medical practice. Described about 80 diseases, which may cause dizziness. In outpatient practice, giddiness is the main reason to doctors of various specialties in 2-5% of cases, and with regard to physicians, these figures should be at least doubled. Vestibular disorders of the vascular, toxic, infectious and other origins can be caused by various medical conditions. The most frequent causes of vestibular syndrome are hypertension, cervical osteochondrosis, cerebral arteriosclerosis. Vestibular dysfunction is almost mandatory symptom in tumors, inflammatory, degenerative, hereditary diseases of the central nervous system, traumatic brain injury, vibration disease.