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Thomas Brandt, MD; Robert B. Daroff, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1980;106(8):484-485.

Abstract
• We treated 67 patients with the symptoms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) by challenging them with the precipitating head positions on a repeated and serial basis. Sixty-six of the patients experienced complete relief of the vertigo within three to 14 days; in two patients, the vertigo recurred but responded to a second course of therapy. The one patient whose condition did not respond was found to have a perilymphatic fistula that mimicked BPPV. The presumed mechanism for this therapy is the loosening and ultimate dispersion of degenerated otolithic particles from the cupula of the posterior semicircular canal.

(Arch Otolaryngol 106:484-485, 1980)

Author Affiliations
From the Neurologische Klinik mit klinischer Neurophysiologie, Krupp Krankenanstalten, Essen, West Germany (Dr Brandt); and the Neurology Service, Miami Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine (Dr Daroff).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 12, 1979.

Reprint requests to Neurology Service (127A), Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1201 NW 16th St, Miami, FL 33125 (Dr Daroff). Outside the United States, reprint requests to Neurologische Klinik mit klinischer Neurophysiologie, Krupp Krankenanstalten, 4300 Essen, West Germany (Dr Brandt).

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