Review Article
Vestibular Migraine: Clinical Challenges and Opportunities for Multidisciplinarity
Table 1
Vestibular migraine, MD, and BPPV: distinctive features.
| | VM | MD | BPPV |
| Age | Always (peak 4th decade) | 3rd–5th decade | 5th decade | Sex | F 3 : 1 | F/M 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 M | F 2 : 1 | Family history | ++ | + | + | Vertigo | Polysymptomatic, monosymptomatic, or positional | Monosymptomatic | Positional | Attacks duration | Minutes to days | 20 minutes to 12 hours | Seconds, but recurrent positional paroxysms for days or weeks | Phono/photophobia | ++ | + | − | Headache | ++ | + | +− | Aura | + | − | − | Hearing loss | + | +++ | − | Progressive hearing loss | −+ | +++ | − |
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