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Clinical and demographic characteristics of children and adolescents with acute vertigo symptoms: A cross-sectional study
- Source :
- Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background/aim Vertigo is one of the rarely diagnosed disorders during childhood due to insufficient description of the children regarding their experiences to the physicians. The clinical features of children and adolescents admitted by acute vertigo symptoms were investigated to elaborate the subject retrospectively. Materials and methods BetweenJanuary 2017–July 2019, records of cases admitted with acute vertigo complaints to pediatric neurology were retrospectively examined. Results Of 761 patients, mean age was 13.8 years, 64% (n = 487) were women, 22.6% (n = 172) of which were children (1–11 years). A total of 37.3% of the cases (n = 284) had unknown etiology of acute vertigo symptoms, 39.6% (n = 301) had acute vertigo, and 23.1% (n = 176) were considered with no organicity problems but a group of the families stopped cooperating to the full extent in the study. Among all the patients, 25.6% (195/761) had paroxymal vertigo, 6.8% (52/761) had migraine-associated vertigo, 4.5% (34/761) had psychogenic vertigo, and 2.6% (20/761) had epileptic vertigo. Epileptic vertigo was significantly higher in younger children (mean age = 10.6, F(3) = 8874, P < .001), and the ratio of its occurence was also higher among children (60%, χ2 (3) = 20.347, P < .001). Conclusion Vertigo complaints are 1.7 times more common among the girls. Epileptic vertigo is significantly higher among the children. Among younger children, it seems important to consider epilepsy when vertigo emerged.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Cross-sectional study
Article
Epilepsy
Young Adult
Sex Factors
Vertigo
medicine
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
Humans
Retrospective Studies
child
biology
business.industry
Age Factors
Infant
Epileptic vertigo
Mean age
Electroencephalography
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Cross-Sectional Studies
Child, Preschool
Acute Disease
Etiology
Female
Pediatric Neurology
sense organs
business
Psychogenic vertigo
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13036165 and 13000144
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....872c3eb75f276697c505d48104a7f1ac