title: [Vertigo as a symptom of psychosocial pain].
abstract: Vertigo in a patient with end stage lung cancer challenges the caring team. No relief can be achieved by various treatment attempts. In a retrospective analysis it turns out that the physical symptom of vertigo makes up for psychosocial pain. Causes for this reaction can be found in the patient's history and deal with solitude and loss in a wider sense. Finding out what means quality of life to an individual patient leads to general ideas about human needs. Considerations about the best place to stay for a dying person need to be merged with the options a medical system offers.
authors.affiliation: Palliativstation der Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin I, Medizinische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria. verena.gartner@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Verena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gartner
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fässler-Weibel
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D000368:Aged; D000964:Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003841:Deoxycytidine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D012803:Sick Role; D012934:Social Isolation / Q000523:psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014717:Vertigo / Q000523:psychology*; D000093542:Gemcitabine
chemical_list: D000964:Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; D003841:Deoxycytidine; D000093542:Gemcitabine