Etiology of vertigo syndrome

Vertigo syndrome is a common clinical disease with complicated etiology. The common diseases that cause vertigo clinically are as follows: 1. Peripheral vertigo: common diseases include Meniere’s disease, labyrinthitis, positional vertigo, vestibular neuritis and vertigo caused by ototoxic drug poisoning; 2. Central vertigo: common causes include auditory neuroma, tumors of brainstem or cerebellum, cerebral vascular lesions and cranio-cerebral trauma, etc.; 3. Systemic diseases: such as hypertension, hypotension, severe anemia, heart disease, hypoglycemia, hyperlipidemia, abnormal thyroid function, neurosis, ocular myopathy and refractive error, glaucoma, etc. Therefore, clinical work should treat vertigo syndrome according to the cause as well as the disease to relieve the patient’s pain and eliminate the comprehensive causes of vertigo syndrome, and the patient’s vertigo symptoms can be cured.