Audiometric examination in vestibulopathies of mixed genesis

ISBN-13: 9786204390024 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str.

Victor Ivanovich Egorov; Alexey Vasilievich Kozarenko; Marina Alexeyevna Kozarenko

Opis

Dizziness and headache are the most common reasons for people to seek medical care. Each year, nearly 4 million patients complain of dizziness, representing 4% of all patients and spending $4 billion in U.S. healthcare costs [Saber Tehrani AS, Coughlan D, Hsieh YH et al, 2013]. Dizziness (synonym vertigo) is a frequent complaint at the reception not only by otorhinolaryngologists, but also by doctors of other specialties: neurologists, therapists. It may be due to both central disturbances and lesions of the peripheral part of the vestibular analyzer. According to epidemiological studies, according to some sources, it has a central origin in 12.5-25% of patients with vertigo and is caused by circulatory disorders in the vertebral-basilar system, migraine, multiple sclerosis, tumors of the posterior cranial fossa, neurodegenerative diseases, drug intake [Aptikeeva NV, 2015].

O autorze

Egorov, Victor IvanovichEgorov V.I. - MD, PhD, professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Moscow Regional Clinical Hospital named after M.F. Vladimirsky. Author of more than 350 works.A. V. Kozarenko - Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, M.F. Vladimirsky Moscow Regional Clinical Hospital. Author of 50 works.M.A. Kozarenko - MD, PhD, research associate of St. Petersburg Research Institute of Ear, Throat, Nose and Speech of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. 9 works.