Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Introduction: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Description of Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (medical condition): A condition where certain head movements cause extreme dizziness....more »

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Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo:
  »Introduction: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
  »Symptoms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
  »Causes of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo:

• Positional vertigo
• Benign
• Paroxysmal
• Vertigo (169 causes)
• Vertigo disease
• Vertigo disorder
• Recurrent
• Form
• Utricular
• Otoconia

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or a subtype of Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo as a Disease

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (medical condition): See Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (disease information).
  »Introduction: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
  »Symptoms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
  »Causes of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Related Diseases

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Ear conditions
• Coordination and balance conditions

More information on medical condition: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo:

• Information about Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
• Basic Summary for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
• Causes of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
• Symptoms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo:

• balance disorder
• tinnitus
• hearing loss
• upper respiratory tract infection
• head injury
• prochlorperazine
• dizziness
• vestivular system
• vestibular neuronitis
• motion sickness
• labyrinthitis
• Meniere's disease
• migraine
• canalithiasis

Terms associated with Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo:

Terms Similar to Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo:

• BPPV
• Familial benign recurrent vertigo
• Familial vestibulopathy

Source - NIH

Hierarchical classifications of Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo

The following list attempts to classify Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo into categories where each line is subset of the next.

Disease Ontology - OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies)

• Other and unspecified peripheral vertigo
• Unspecified vertiginous syndromes and labyrinthine disorders
• DISEASES OF THE EAR AND MASTOID PROCESS
• DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SENSE ORGANS
• DISEASES AND INJURIES
• Disease Ontology V2.1 2005

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