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Vertigo/Dizziness in the Elderly

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It is a common symptom in at least one-third of the patients over the age of 65 years. Benign positional vertigo, vestibular neuronitis and Meniere’s diseases are the commonest causes of vertigo. Other causes include vertebrobasilar insufficiency, migraine, multiple sclerosis and cerebellar neoplasms.

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Nagaratnam, N., Nagaratnam, K., Cheuk, G. (2018). Vertigo/Dizziness in the Elderly. In: Geriatric Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33434-9_82

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