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Summary Of: Balance disorder

Symptoms of a balance disorder may include dizziness... an inner ear fluid balance disorder that causes lasting episodes of vertigo... Some of the symptoms a person with a balance disorder may experience are... Diagnosis of a balance disorder is complicated because there are many kinds of balance disorders and because other medical conditions...

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ICD | 10 | H | R | ICD | 9 | Balance | vestibular system | proprioception | Balance Disorder Illustration A | Illustration of the flow of fluid in the ear, which in turn causes displacement of the top portion of the hair cells that are embedded in the jelly-like cupula. Also shows the utricle and saccule-otolithic organs that are responsible for detecting linear acceleration, or movement in a straight line. | This figure shows nerve activity associated with rotational-induced physiologic nystagmus and spontaneous nystagmus resulting from a lesion of one labyrinth. Thin straight arrows - direction of slow components; thick straight arrows - direction of fast components; curved arrows - direction of endolymph flow in the horizontal semicircular canals: AC - anterior canal, PC - posterior canal, HC - horizontal canal. | cochlea | vertigo | Vertigo | Disequilibrium | Pre-syncope | Nystagmus | Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo | Labyrinthitis | Vestibular neuronitis | Ménière's disease | tinnitus | Perilymph fistula | Superior canal dehiscence syndrome | inner ear | Meningitis | encephalitis | Syphilis | ischemia | Cogan syndrome | Arnold-Chiari malformation | Multiple Sclerosis | Parkinsons | Neoplasms | nausea | diarrhea | blood pressure | Cognitive | MRI | atrophy | hippocampus | vestibular system | electronystagmography | Computerized Dynamic Posturography | Caloric reflex test | auditory system | auditory brainstem response test | magnetic resonance imaging | computerized axial tomography | stroke | multiple sclerosis | Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo | Epley's exercises | home BPPV treatment | alcohol | caffeine | nicotine | Sedative | anticholinergics | antihistamines | benzodiazepines | calcium channel antagonists | Verapamil | Nimodipine | gabapentin | baclofen | SSRI's | SNRI's | Tricyclics | public domain | v | Diseases of the ear | mastoid process | H60-H99 | 380-389 | External ear | Otitis externa | Middle ear | mastoid | Otitis media | Mastoiditis | Bezold's abscess | Gradenigo's syndrome | Cholesteatoma | Perforated eardrum | Inner ear | Otosclerosis | Ménière's disease | Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo | Vestibular neuronitis | Vertigo | Labyrinthitis | Perilymph fistula | Superior canal dehiscence syndrome | Hearing impairment | Conductive hearing loss | Sensorineural hearing loss | Central hearing loss | Presbycusis | Tinnitus | Hyperacusis | congenital | Categories | Otology | Neurology |
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