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BMC Neurology May 2021When dizziness/vertigo patients presented with balance disorder, it will bring severe morbidity. There is currently lack of research to explore risk factor related...
BACKGROUND
When dizziness/vertigo patients presented with balance disorder, it will bring severe morbidity. There is currently lack of research to explore risk factor related balance disorder in dizziness patients, especially in those who walk independently.
AIM
To investigate risk factors related balance disorder in dizziness/vertigo patients who walk independently.
METHODS
Medical data of 1002 dizziness/vertigo patients registered in vertigo/balance disorder registration database were reviewed. The demographic data, medical history, and risk factors for atherosclerosis (AS) were collected. Enrolled dizziness/vertigo patients could walk independently, completed Romberg test, videonystagmography (VNG), and limits of stability (LOS). The subjective imbalance was patient complained of postural symptom when performing Romberg test. Multivariable logistic regression analyzed risk factors related balance disorder. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve evaluated the utility of regression model.
RESULTS
Five hundred fifty-three dizziness/vertigo patients who walk independently were included in the final analysis. According to LOS, patients were divided into 334 (60%) normal balance and 219 (40%) balance disorder. Compared with normal balance, patients with balance disorder were older (P = 0.045) and had more risk factors for AS (P<0.0001). The regression showed that risk factors for AS (OR 1.494, 95% CI 1.198-1.863), subjective imbalance (OR 4.835, 95% CI 3.047-7.673), and abnormality of optokinetic nystagmus (OR 8.308, 95% CI 1.576-43.789) were related to balance disorder. The sensitivity and specificity of model were 71 and 63% (P<0.0001). The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.721.
CONCLUSIONS
Risk factors for AS, subjective imbalance, and abnormality of optokinetic nystagmus were predictors for balance disorder in patients with dizziness/vertigo who walk independently.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Atherosclerosis; Dizziness; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Postural Balance; Risk Factors; Sensation Disorders; Vertigo
PubMed: 33964889
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-021-02188-7 -
Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal Sep 2021Vertigo and dizziness are the common presenting concerns in emergency departments and outpatient clinics, accounts for approximately 15% to 20% of adults annually. We...
OBJECTIVE
Vertigo and dizziness are the common presenting concerns in emergency departments and outpatient clinics, accounts for approximately 15% to 20% of adults annually. We aimed to evaluate economic burden of vertigo on health-care system and work productivity in association between clinic characteristics of in- or outpatients.
METHODS
A total number of 2289 patients diagnosed with peripheric (noncentral) vertigo were evaluated retrospectively. The direct medical costs associated with vertigo classified as medication, consumable, imaging, and laboratory. In addition, the indirect costs were associated with lost working days. The overall economic impact of vertigo assessed via total expenditure for diagnosis and treatment.
RESULTS
The mean duration of hospitalization was 5.6 ± 4.3 days and working day lost was 9.47 ± 3.90 days. The overall impact on work productivity of disease was 15.35 ± 6.11 days. The overall mean direct cost including all expenditure items associated with vertigo care was $250.25 ± $1479.62 per patient. The overall cost associated with vertigo was found to be statistically increased in the male, aged ≥65 years, widow or divorced, and hospitalized patients.
CONCLUSIONS
Our findings clearly indicate that a vertigo-dizziness management program based on patients' risk factors may achieve to reduce hospitalizations and cost of hospital care as well.
Topics: Absenteeism; Aged; Ambulatory Care; Cost of Illness; Direct Service Costs; Dizziness; Female; Financial Stress; Health Expenditures; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Marital Status; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; Sex Factors; Vertigo
PubMed: 32070134
DOI: 10.1177/0145561320906330 -
Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal Aug 2021Ménière disease is a disorder of the inner ear, characterized by rotational vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and vegetative symptoms. The aim of the present research...
Ménière disease is a disorder of the inner ear, characterized by rotational vertigo, hearing loss, tinnitus, and vegetative symptoms. The aim of the present research is to examine the effectiveness of betahistine and piracetam in the reduction of vertigo attacks in Ménière disease. To verify our hypothesis, 105 (31 male and 74 females, mean age [standard deviation], 57.4 [11.05]) adult patients with definite Ménière disease were enrolled in this investigation. Beside the analysis of the hospital records, the subjective complaints of the patients and the completed vertigo diaries were taken into consideration too. The statistical analysis was completed using the IBM SPSS version 24 software. Retrospective analysis, including a 12 years period was conducted. Based on our results, betahistine was successful in the reduction of attacks. Statistically significant decrease was achieved in frequency of dizziness ( = .000331) and vertigo ( < .00001) and in the duration of them ( = .000098), although in the mean power of them was not ( = .0887). The mean dose in the symptomatic treatment was determined as 87.5 ± 27.2 mg per day; however, there was no connection detected between the dose of the agent and the effectiveness of the symptomatic control. By using dual therapy (betahistine and piracetam), vertigo episodes appeared significantly less often ( = .027, Odds ratio: 4.9, 95% confidence interval: 1.2-20.2). Finally, it can be concluded that betahistine is effective in Ménière disease, but the daily dose of it should be set up for every patient individually. The advantage of the dual therapy was also confirmed.
Topics: Betahistine; Conservative Treatment; Drug Therapy, Combination; Female; Humans; Male; Medical Records; Meniere Disease; Middle Aged; Nootropic Agents; Odds Ratio; Piracetam; Retrospective Studies; Treatment Outcome; Vertigo
PubMed: 31617407
DOI: 10.1177/0145561319881838 -
Ear, Nose, & Throat Journal Dec 2021To compare video head impulse test (vHIT) and caloric test efficacy in decompensated and compensated vertigo patients and to further investigate whether vHIT alone can... (Comparative Study)
Comparative Study
OBJECTIVE
To compare video head impulse test (vHIT) and caloric test efficacy in decompensated and compensated vertigo patients and to further investigate whether vHIT alone can be used as a diagnostic tool in vertigo.
METHODS
This study included 25 patients diagnosed with vertigo and without any previous history of vertigo or hearing loss before their admission to our clinic. The control group consisted of 16 healthy adult volunteers. Patients were classified into 2 groups, compensated and decompensated. Video head impulse test and caloric tests were performed and the results were compared between the groups.
RESULTS
The difference of caloric test values between control-compensated groups and compensated-decompensated groups was statistically significant ( < .001, Pearson χ). However, there was no statistically significant difference between the compensated and control groups according to vHIT gain asymmetry values ( = .087). In the very early stages of the disease with spontaneous nystagmus, the diagnostic significance of vHIT was similar to that of the caloric test. When both sides were compared, vHIT gain asymmetry values were close to the caloric test asymmetry values. In the compensated stage, caloric test was superior to vHIT in differentiating compensated vestibular pathologies. When vHIT sensitivity was evaluated according to the bi-thermal caloric test results, the sensitivity of the vHIT gain asymmetry value was 85.71% and 23.08% for decompensated and compensated patients respectively.
CONCLUSION
In the early decompensated stages of the disease with spontaneous nystagmus, vHIT shows similar diagnostic accuracy to that of the caloric test. Since patients can tolerate vHIT more easily, our results suggest that vHIT can be considered as a primary evaluation method in the early (decompensated) period of the disease and should be preferred over the caloric test during the acute phase. Caloric test is more reliable at the compensated stage. Video head impulse test is inadequate in evaluating the compensated vestibular hypofunctional states after compensation has been restored.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
Level 2b.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Caloric Tests; Female; Head Impulse Test; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Nystagmus, Pathologic; Prospective Studies; Sensitivity and Specificity; Vertigo
PubMed: 32981343
DOI: 10.1177/0145561320962597 -
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences Dec 2020Vertigo is one of the rarely diagnosed disorders during childhood due to insufficient description of the children regarding their experiences to the...
Background/aim
Vertigo is one of the rarely diagnosed disorders during childhood due to insufficient description of the children regarding their experiences to the physicians. The clinical features of children and adolescents admitted by acute vertigo symptoms were investigated to elaborate the subject retrospectively.
Materials and methods
BetweenJanuary 2017–July 2019, records of cases admitted with acute vertigo complaints to pediatric neurology were retrospectively examined.
Results
Of 761 patients, mean age was 13.8 years, 64% (n = 487) were women, 22.6% (n = 172) of which were children (1–11 years). A total of 37.3% of the cases (n = 284) had unknown etiology of acute vertigo symptoms, 39.6% (n = 301) had acute vertigo, and 23.1% (n = 176) were considered with no organicity problems but a group of the families stopped cooperating to the full extent in the study. Among all the patients, 25.6% (195/761) had paroxymal vertigo, 6.8% (52/761) had migraine-associated vertigo, 4.5% (34/761) had psychogenic vertigo, and 2.6% (20/761) had epileptic vertigo. Epileptic vertigo was significantly higher in younger children (mean age = 10.6, F(3) = 8874, P < .001), and the ratio of its occurence was also higher among children (60%, χ2 (3) = 20.347, P < .001).
Conclusion
Vertigo complaints are 1.7 times more common among the girls. Epileptic vertigo is significantly higher among the children. Among younger children, it seems important to consider epilepsy when vertigo emerged.
Topics: Acute Disease; Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Child; Child, Preschool; Cross-Sectional Studies; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Female; Humans; Infant; Male; Retrospective Studies; Sex Factors; Vertigo; Young Adult
PubMed: 33306337
DOI: 10.3906/sag-2010-228 -
Trials Jun 2022Dizziness and vertigo affect around 15% of adults annually and represent common reasons for contacting health services, accounting for around 3% of all emergency...
BACKGROUND
Dizziness and vertigo affect around 15% of adults annually and represent common reasons for contacting health services, accounting for around 3% of all emergency department visits worldwide. Vertigo is also associated with excessive use of diagnostic imaging and emergency care and decreased productivity, primarily because of work absenteeism. Vestibular rehabilitation is an evidence-based treatment for chronic dizziness and supervised group exercise therapy has recently been shown to be effective after vestibular neuritis, a common cause of acute onset vertigo. However, such interventions are not readily available and there is a need for more easily accessible tools. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects on vestibular symptoms of a 6-week online vestibular rehabilitation tool after acute onset vertigo, with the aim of aiding vestibular rehabilitation by presenting a more accessible tool that can help to reduce recovery time.
METHODS
Three hundred twenty individuals diagnosed with acute vestibular syndrome (AVS) will be recruited from multiple hospitals in Sweden and the effects of an online vestibular rehabilitation tool, YrselTräning, on vestibular symptoms after acute onset vertigo will be compared to standard care (written instructions leaflet) in a two-armed, evaluator-blinded, multicenter randomized controlled trial. The primary outcome will be the Vertigo Symptom Scale Short Form (VSS-SF) score at 6 weeks after symptom onset. Secondary outcomes include effects of the intervention on activities of daily living, mood and anxiety, vestibular function recovery, mobility measures, health economic effects, and the reliability of the Swedish VSS-SF translation.
DISCUSSION
Participants using the online vestibular rehabilitation tool are expected to recover earlier and to a greater extent from their symptoms as compared to standard care. Since up to 50% of people with AVS without treatment develop persistent symptoms, effective treatment of AVS will likely lead to a higher quality of life and help reduce the societal costs associated with dizziness and vertigo.
TRIAL REGISTRATION
Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05056324 . Registered on September 24, 2021.
Topics: Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Dizziness; Humans; Internet; Multicenter Studies as Topic; Quality of Life; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Reproducibility of Results; Vertigo
PubMed: 35710448
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06460-0 -
Communications Biology Oct 2021Vertigo is the leading symptom of vestibular disorders and a major risk factor for falls. In a genome-wide association study of vertigo (N = 48,072,... (Meta-Analysis)
Meta-Analysis
Vertigo is the leading symptom of vestibular disorders and a major risk factor for falls. In a genome-wide association study of vertigo (N = 48,072, N = 894,541), we uncovered an association with six common sequence variants in individuals of European ancestry, including missense variants in ZNF91, OTOG, OTOGL, and TECTA, and a cis-eQTL for ARMC9. The association of variants in ZNF91, OTOGL, and OTOP1 was driven by an association with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Using previous reports of sequence variants associating with age-related hearing impairment and motion sickness, we found eight additional variants that associate with vertigo. Although disorders of the auditory and the vestibular system may co-occur, none of the six genome-wide significant vertigo variants were associated with hearing loss and only one was associated with age-related hearing impairment. Our results uncovered sequence variants associating with vertigo in a genome-wide association study and implicated genes with known roles in inner ear development, maintenance, and disease.
Topics: Ear, Inner; Genome, Human; Genome-Wide Association Study; Humans; Labyrinth Diseases; Mutation, Missense; Vertigo
PubMed: 34620984
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02673-2 -
BMC Neurology Oct 2020Acute vertigo is a common presentation of inner ear disease. However, it can also be caused by more serious conditions, especially posterior circulation stroke....
BACKGROUND
Acute vertigo is a common presentation of inner ear disease. However, it can also be caused by more serious conditions, especially posterior circulation stroke. Differentiating between these two conditions by clinical presentations and imaging studies during the acute phase can be challenging. This study aimed to identify serum microRNA (miRNA) candidates that could differentiate between posterior circulation stroke and peripheral vertigo, among patients presenting with acute vertigo.
METHODS
Serum levels of six miRNAs including miR-125a-5p, miR-125b-5p, miR-143-3p, miR-342-3p, miR-376a-3p, and miR-433-5p were evaluated. Using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), the serum miRNAs were assessed in the acute phase and at a 90 day follow-up visit.
RESULTS
A total of 58 patients with posterior circulation stroke (n = 23) and peripheral vertigo (n = 35) were included in the study. Serum miR-125a-5p (P = 0.001), miR-125b-5p (P < 0.001), miR-143-3p (P = 0.014) and miR-433-5p (P = 0.0056) were present at significantly higher levels in the acute phase, in the patients with posterior circulation infarction. Based on the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) only miR-125a-5p (0.75), miR-125b-5p(0.77), and miR-433-5p (0.71) had an acceptable discriminative ability to differentiate between the central and peripheral vertigo. A combination of miRNAs revealed no significant improvement of AUROC when compared to single miRNAs.
CONCLUSION
This study demonstrated the potential of serum miR-125a-5p, miR-125b-5p, and miR-433-5p as biomarkers to assist in the diagnosis of posterior circulation infarction among patients presenting with acute vertigo.
Topics: Adult; Biomarkers; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Male; MicroRNAs; Middle Aged; ROC Curve; Stroke; Vertigo
PubMed: 33038923
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-020-01946-3 -
PloS One 2021In recent population-based case-control studies, sleep apnea was significantly associated with a higher incidence (hazard ratio, 1.71) of vertigo and the risk of...
BACKGROUND
In recent population-based case-control studies, sleep apnea was significantly associated with a higher incidence (hazard ratio, 1.71) of vertigo and the risk of tinnitus was found to increase 1.36 times in patients with sleep apnea. The possibility that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) might affect neurotological consequences was not noticed, until studies using polysomnography (PSG) for these patients.
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between vertigo and OSA.
METHODS
The collected data among patients from May 1st, 2018 to October 31th, 2018 at Shuang Ho Hospital. Eligibility criteria included an age older than 20 years, a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. The diagnosis of OSA was defined as an oxygen desaturation index of at least 5, was established with the use of polysomnographic examination at hospital. Patients were excluded from the study if they had head injury, brain tumour, headache history and hearing loss. Patients who had vertigo were labeled as Vertigo group. In the other hand, patients who had no dizziness were labeled as control group. 58 patients were in the Vertigo group, and 113 were in the control group.
RESULTS
After PSG examination, 58 patients who had vertigo, were diagnosed OSA (29 males, average age = 57.07 years old, BMI = 26.64, RDI = 24.69, ESS = 8.65), and 24 patients of them (41.3%) were REM-related OSA. Meanwhile, in the control group, 113 patients had OSA (92male, average age = 49.66 years old, BMI = 26.06, RDI = 35.19, ESS = 11.43), and 18 patients of them (15.9%) were REM-related OSA (Table 1). Therefore, patient who had vertigo, would have higher proportion of REM OSA (P<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
The vertigo patients have a higher rate of REM-related OSA, and the acceptance rate to CPAP use is low. Further research is needed to explore novel therapeutic approaches, or combination of currently available non-CPAP therapies, in patients with REM OSA.
Topics: Adult; Case-Control Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; Sleep, REM; Vertigo
PubMed: 34115792
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252844 -
The Journal of International Medical... Jun 2020We aimed to clarify the burden of vertigo in patients' homes.
OBJECTIVE
We aimed to clarify the burden of vertigo in patients' homes.
METHODS
This was a questionnaire survey among patients with vestibular vertigo. Four main questions were prepared. Q1: Where did you first notice vertigo? Q2: Where have you had the most difficulty with vertigo in your home? Q3: Where do you have difficulty at present? Q4: What household equipment have you used as a countermeasure to prevent further problems with vertigo?
RESULTS
Sixty patients completed the questionnaire. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) was most common among respondents, followed by Ménière's disease. Q1: Most patients with BPPV first noticed vertigo in the bedroom; patients with other diseases first noticed vertigo in the living room. Q2: Both groups previously had the most difficulty with vertigo in the same locations as in Q1; these differences were significant between Q1 and Q2. Q3: Both groups had the most difficulty on stairs. Q4: Handrails were the most often used equipment for vertigo in both groups. There was no significant difference between Q3 and Q4.
CONCLUSION
Our data revealed that the locations of risks differ among patients with vestibular disorders. Handrails were considered the most important equipment to prevent problems with vertigo.
Topics: Adult; Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo; Female; Humans; Japan; Male; Meniere Disease; Middle Aged; Quality of Life; Risk Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vertigo; Vestibular Diseases
PubMed: 32552284
DOI: 10.1177/0300060520929130