Opinion
Unmasked Vertigo
Marco Poloni1, Poloni Nicola1
1Department of Neurology, Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy
2Department of Neurology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Marco Poloni, Department of Neurology, Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Received Date: November 16, 2018; Published Date: November 30, 2018
Abstract
Vertigo is a very unpleasant symptom for the patient and a complex clinical problem for the neurologist. First of all: a clear definition is needed, useful for both patients and clinicians and this doesn’t seem a problem but, in my professional life I haven’t yet found a satisfactory definition: I think that the following is clear and comprehensive: Vertigo is a distorted perception of the position or movement of head in the space. It may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and by other vegetative symptoms; other signs may be nystagmus and postural deviations with falls. First of all, we must have complete knowledge of the structures which give a contribution to our perception of the position and shift of our head in the surrounding space.
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Marco Poloni, Poloni Nicola. Unmasked Vertigo. Arch Neurol & Neurosci. 2(1): 2018. ANN.MS.ID.000526.
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