Vertigo and dizziness in pediatric patients and adolescents

Аннотация

Imbalance and vertigo is an uncommon complaint in pediatric patients and adolescents. Studies devoted to the vertigo in adult population have reported a one-year prevalence of 23% for unspecified dizziness and 5% for vestibular vertigo. In contrast, another work of all ICD-9 codes related to vestibular and balance disorders in more than 560000 distinct pediatric patient encounters during a 4-year period revealed prevalence of only 0.4% for unspecific dizziness, 0.03% for peripheral, and 0.02% for central vestibulopathy (Jahn K et all 2015).