Oxford Textbook of Vertigo and Imbalance

Abstract In this new edition of this book a broad group of international specialists in dizziness, vertigo, and balance disorders has been gathered. Neurologists, otolaryngologists, general practitioners, audiologists, therapists, and paediatricians from more than 10 different countries have provided state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of dizziness and balance disorders. Neuro-otology is a medical discipline where physiological basis and practical clinical aspects are closely linked and where borders between specialties such as neurology and otology are deliberately blurred. For this reason, the book discusses the causes and treatments of disorders causing dizziness and imbalance, paying equal attention to those emanating from the inner ear or the brain. Diseases causing vertigo and imbalance, such as migraine, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and Meniere’s disease, have been known for decades or centuries. The book deals with these extensively but not forgetting the newly defined conditions such as cerebellar vestibular disorders, including the cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome or CANVAS, and other genetically determined diseases. All chapters in the current edition have been updated, but new chapters have also been added, dealing specifically with problems in the elderly and in children and with vestibular surgery. This book is ideal for doctors and therapists looking for a comprehensive approach to the patient with dizziness and unsteadiness.