This issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Maja Svrakic
and Meredith E. Adams is devoted to The Dizzy Patient. This issue is one
of six selected each year by our series consulting editor, Dr. Sujana S.
Chandrasekhar. With its broad differential diagnosis and significant
impact on quality of life, dizziness is a common symptom that presents
substantial diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. This issue focuses on
the clinical evaluation and management of the range of dizziness
symptomatology and syndromes. Articles in this issue include: Overview
of dizziness in practice; Interviewing and counseling the dizzy patient
with focus on quality of life; The efficient dizziness history and exam;
Efficient use of audiovestibular testing; Neuroimaging of dizziness and
vertigo; Positional vertigo; Acute vestibular syndrome and ER
presentations of dizziness; Chronic central vestibulopathies for the
otolaryngologist; Vestibular migraine and its comorbidities; Progressive
and degenerative peripheral vestibular disorders; The dizzy child;
Neuropsychology of dizziness and related disorders; Non-vestibular
dizziness; Vestibular therapy and fall risk assessment; Current and
emerging medical therapies for dizziness; Allergy, immunotherapy and
alternative treatments for dizziness; and New frontiers in managing the
dizzy patient.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on dizzy patients, providing
actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic
under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors
synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to
create these timely topic-based reviews.
