From the Aerospace Medicine Residents' Teaching File. Case #36.
A designated naval aviator was evaluated after several episodes of vertigo related to a zoom climb flight profile. Workup led to the diagnosis of alternobaric vertigo. Contributing factors were concurrent upper respiratory infection and functioning left pressure equilibration (PE) tube for chronic otitis media.
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Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Code 32, NAS, Pensacola, FL 32508.
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D000328:Adult; D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014717:Vertigo / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology