Audiometric examination in vestibulopathies of mixed genesis

Dizziness and headache are the most common reasons for people to seek medical care. Each year nearly 4 million patients complain of dizziness representing 4% of all patients and spending $4 billion in U.S. healthcare costs [Saber Tehrani AS Coughlan D Hsieh YH et al 2013]. Dizziness (synonym vertigo) is a frequent complaint at the reception not only by otorhinolaryngologists but also by doctors of other specialties: neurologists therapists. It may be due to both central disturbances and lesions of the peripheral part of the vestibular analyzer. According to epidemiological studies according to some sources it has a central origin in 12.5-25% of patients with vertigo and is caused by circulatory disorders in the vertebral-basilar system migraine multiple sclerosis tumors of the posterior cranial fossa neurodegenerative diseases drug intake [Aptikeeva NV 2015].