Avaliação da tontura

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Última atualização: 24 Apr 2025

Resumo

Diferenciales

Común

  • Vertigem posicional paroxística benigna (VPPB)
  • Doença de Ménière
  • Neurite vestibular
  • Labirintite
  • Enxaqueca vestibular
  • Pré-síncope
  • Hipotensão ortostática
  • Síndrome da taquicardia ortostática postural
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Bebidas alcoólicas
  • Medicamentos
  • Doença do coronavírus 2019 (COVID-19)
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Infrecuente

  • Colesteatoma
  • Deiscência do canal semicircular superior
  • Fístula perilinfática
  • Tontura postural-perceptual persistente (TPPP)
  • Tumor da fossa posterior
  • Esclerose múltipla
  • AVC de circulação posterior
  • Insuficiência vertebrobasilar
  • Malformação de Arnold-Chiari tipo 1
  • Síndrome de Wallenberg (infarto medular lateral)
  • Trauma
  • Dissecção da artéria vertebral
  • Degeneração cerebelar paraneoplásica
  • Hipertensão intracraniana idiopática
  • Hidrocefalia de pressão normal
  • Síndrome do mal do desembarque
  • Tontura psicofisiológica
  • Tontura psicogênica
  • Lúpus eritematoso sistêmico (LES)
  • Síndrome de Cogan
  • Granulomatose com poliangiite (anteriormente conhecida como granulomatose de Wegener)
  • Doença de Behçet
  • Intoxicação por monóxido de carbono
  • Pós-cirurgia
  • Sífilis secundária
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Colaboradores

Autores

Susan A. Douglas, MBBS (Hons) UWI, FRCSEd, FRCS (ORL-HNS)

Consultant Otolaryngologist and Otologist

Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

Rotherham

UK

Divulgaciones

SAD declares that she has no competing interests.

Agradecimientos

Dr Susan A. Douglas would like to thank Professor William Gibson, a previous contributor to this topic.

Divulgaciones

WG is an author of a reference cited in this topic.

Revisores por pares

Joel Goebel, MD, FACS

Professor and Vice Chairman

Residency Program Director

Dizziness and Balance Center Director

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis

MO

Divulgaciones

JG is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.

Iain Swan, MD, FRCS

Senior Lecturer in Otolaryngology

Honorary Consultant Otolaryngologist

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Glasgow

UK

Disclosures

IS declares that he has no competing interests.

References

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Key articles

Bhattacharyya N, Gubbels SP, Schwartz SR, et al. Clinical practice guideline: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (update). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Mar;156(suppl 3):S1-47. Abstract

Basura GJ, Adams ME, Monfared A, et al. Clinical practice guideline: Ménière's disease. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020 Apr;162(2_suppl):S1-55.Full text  Abstract

American College of Radiology. ACR appropriateness criteria: ​dizziness and ataxia. 2023 [internet publication].Full text

American College of Radiology. ACR Appropriateness Criteria: hearing loss and/or vertigo. 2018 [internet publication].Full text

Shen WK, Sheldon RS, Benditt DG, et al. 2017 ACC/AHA/HRS guideline for the evaluation and management of patients with syncope: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society. Circulation. 2017 Aug 1;136(5):e60-122.Full text

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