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Why Do Subjective Vertigo and Dizziness Persist over One Year after a Vestibular Vertigo Syndrome?
Author(s) -
Best Christoph,
EckhardtHenn Annegret,
Tschan Regine,
Dieterich Marianne
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03847.x
Subject(s) - vertigo , vestibular system , medicine , migraine , audiology , anxiety , vestibular disorders , benign paroxysmal positional vertigo , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , surgery
The overlap and interlinkage of dizzy symptoms in patients with psychiatric and vestibular vertigo/dizziness disorders is the subject of an ongoing debate. In a one‐year follow up in 68 patients with vestibular vertigo syndromes, the persistency of vertigo and dizziness symptoms was examined and correlated with vestibular parameters and results from a psychiatric evaluation. Patients with vestibular migraine showed poorest improvement of vertigo and dizziness symptoms over time. In addition, patients who developed anxiety or depressive disorder after the onset of the vestibular disorder showed poor improvement and high persistency of symptoms.