title: Vestibular migraine: the most frequent entity of episodic vertigo.
abstract: Vestibular migraine (VM) is the most common cause of episodic vertigo in adults as well as in children. The diagnostic criteria of the consensus document of the International Bárány Society for Neuro-Otology and the International Headache Society (2012) combine the typical signs and symptoms of migraine with the vestibular symptoms lasting 5 min to 72 h and exclusion criteria. Although VM accounts for 7% of patients seen in dizziness clinics and 9% of patients seen in headache clinics it is still underdiagnosed. This review provides an actual overview on the pathophysiology, the clinical characteristics to establish the diagnosis, the differential diagnosis, and the treatment of VM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Campus Grosshadern, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany. Marianne.Dieterich@med.uni-muenchen.de.|German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. Marianne.Dieterich@med.uni-muenchen.de.|Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany. Marianne.Dieterich@med.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dieterich
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.|Center for Neurology, Asklepios Hospitals Schildautal, Seesen, Germany.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Obermann
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Ege University Medical School, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Nese
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Celebisoy
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014717:Vertigo / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: Bárány Society; Dizziness; Episodic vertigo; International Headache Society; Migrainous vertigo; Review; Vestibular migraine