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Overview
Vertigo is usually associated with a problem in the inner ear balance mechanisms (vestibular system), in the brain, or with the nerve connections between these two organs. Vertigo-like symptoms may also appear as paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) in the form of opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome, a multi-faceted neurological disorder associated with many forms of incipient cancer lesions or virus. If conventional therapies fail, consult with a neuro-oncologist familiar with PNS.
Causes
Common Causes
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo or BPPV
- Meniere's disease
- Superior canal dehiscence syndrome
- Inner ear infection
- Drug toxicity (specifically gentamycin)
- Syphillis
- Carbon Monoxide poisoning
- Strokes, tumors, skull fractures, brain trauma,, sudden changes in blood pressure
- Motion sickness ( sailing, amusement rides, airplanes or motor vehicles)
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Acoustic neuroma
- Acute cochleo-vestibular dysfunction
- Acute labyrinthitis
- Aging
- Alcoholism
- Anemia
- Anticonvulsants
- Antihypertensives
- Anxiety
- Aortic stenosis
- Arrhythmia
- Arteriosclerosis
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Aura of epileptic attack
- Autoimmune disease
- Autoimmune inner ear disease
- Bacterial labyrinthitis
- Basil meningitis
- Basilar migraine
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Brain stem injury
- Car sickness
- Cardiac dysrhythmia
- Cardiac valve stenosis
- Carotid sinus pressure
- Cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
- Cervical spondylosis
- Cervicogenic vertigo
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic otitis media
- Circulation-caused vertigo
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Dehydration
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diuretics
- Drugs, toxins
- Ependymoma
- Epidemic vertigo
- Epilepsy
- Friedrich's Ataxia
- Heart failure
- Height vertigo
- Hyperglobulia
- Hypertension
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Hyperventilation
- Hypotension
- Hypoxia
- Hypoxemia
- Inflammation
- Intoxications
- Kinetosis
- Labyrinth apoplexy
- Labyrinthine concussion
- Labyrinthine trauma
- Labyrinthitis
- Lateral medullary syndrome
- Mastoiditis
- Measles
- Meniere's Disease
- Metabolic disorders
- Metastasis
- Migraine
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neuritis vestibularis
- Ocular vertigo
- Otitis externa
- Ototoxic drugs
- Perilymphatic fistula
- Phobic vertigo
- Postural hypotension
- Psychogenic
- Sedatives
- Serous labyrinthitis
- Serous otitis
- Seizure
- Shy-Drager Syndrome
- Spondylosis cervicalis
- Subclavian-Steal Syndrome
- Syncope
- Syphilis
- Syringobulbia
- Tabes dorsalis
- Temporal bone fracture
- Tertiary syphilis
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
- Tumor
- Typhoid Fever
- Uremia
- Vasovagal response
- Vertebro-basilar insufficiency and thromboembolism
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Vigilance impairment
- Viral labyrinthitis
- Vitamin B12 Deficiency
- Visual deficit
- Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome