Vestibular Migraine and Other Episodic Vertigos: An Update

Clinical and Therapeutical Approach
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-78099-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

The book aims to provide a timely update on a group of disorders of growing clinical and research interest. Vertigo and dizziness are far from being rare in total population and approach to them has significantly changed in the last years. This handbook reports in a practical way what has been recently published on these disorders. As a result, the neurologist will be able to acquire the tools to recognize, diagnose and treat numerous clinical pictures that often border on the expertise of ENT specialists and audiologists. The authoritative interdisciplinary working group that compiled the book intended to provide a practical and integrative view, useful in understanding and solving the problems related to these pathologies (Vestibular Migraine and related disorders) in daily practice. A part on other episodic vertigo has also been included in this handbook, as well as a part which deals with the physiology of the vestibular end organ.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teggi, Roberto

Colombo, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Radiologie, Bildgebende Verfahren
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin HNO-Heilkunde, Phoniatrie, Audiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Physiology of the vestibular system.- Pathophysiology of migraine.- Therapy of migraine.- An overview of the classification of vestibular disorders.- Vestibular Migraine: Epidemiology, Classification and Clinical Features.- Vestibular Migraine: Vestibular Testing and Pathophysiology.- Menière’s Disease: anything new?.- Epidemiology and treatment of BPPV: new perspectives.- PPPD.- Episodic vertigo in pediatric age.- Recurrent vertigo not otherwise specified.- Vestibular Testing.- Imaging of Migraine and Vestibular Migraine.

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Colombo is a board certified neurologist with a passionate interest in headache management and patient care. He is the founder of both the Italian Neurological Society for the Research on Headache (ANIRCEF) and the Italian Foundation for headache (FICEF), and currently serves as elected-President of ANIRCEF.

He has authored and co-authored 250 articles on peer-reviewed journals, and three books. 

Additionally, he has served as Clinical Assistant and a Research Worker at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and the Institute of Neurology, London. Dr. Colombo is currently the Coordinator and Responsible for the Headache Center at Vita-Salute University, San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. He is an academic and teacher at Vita-Salute University and a lecturer on headaches both at Biomedical Campus and San Raffaele Pisana University in Rome.

Roberto Teggi is an ENT specialist, currently working as coordinator and responsible for the centre for vestibular disorders at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. Since graduating his particular area of interests are vestibular and other inner ear disorders.

He is the co-founder and council-member of the Italian Society of Vestibology (VIS); he is also an accepted member of the Barany Society.

He has authored more than 80 articles in the last 20 years on peer review journals, and authored three books on vestibular disorders. He is currently editor of Audiology Research.

He is an academic and teacher at Vita-Salute University and lecturer at master on vestibular disorders at both La Sapienza University and Pavia University.