Vestibular assessment of children and adults complaining of dizziness /
تقييم وظائف الإتزان فى الأطفال و البالغين الذين يعانون من الدوار
Mariam Magdy Medhat ; Supervised Mohamed Tarek Ghannoum , Mona Hassan Selim , Mohamed Sherif Elminawi
- Cairo : Mariam Magdy Medhat , 2014
- 179 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of E.N.T
Dizziness ranks among the most common complaints in medicine. The term dizziness encompasses a variety of different sensations; each points in distinct diagnostic direction. In the face of such diagnostic challenges and in the era of efficiency and cost reduction, a simple, inexpensive, and accurate questionnaire - based diagnostic algorithm would be highly welcome. To develop an Arabic dizziness questionnaire for adults. Modification and application of the pediatric dizziness questionnaire in children, and to compare the questionnaire conclusion with the results of vestibular evaluation. Twenty dizzy adults aged 21 - 60 years, and 20 dizzy children aged 6-17 years were subjected to: An interview with patients using the Arabic dizziness pediatric or adult questionnaire, otological examination, bedside examination for the dizzy patients, basic audiological evaluation, and vestibular assessment including: Videonystagmography(VNG), cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP), and sensory organization testing (SOT) via dynamic posturography