Treatment of vertigo due to acute unilateral vestibular loss with a fixed combination of cinnarizine and dimenhydrinate: A double-blind, randomized, parallel-group clinical study

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 866-877

  Scholtz, Arne W ^a   Schwarz, Mario ^b   Baumann, Wolfgang ^b   Kleinfeldt, Dieter ^c   Scholtz, Heinz Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Medical Science Department   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

cinnarizine; combination; dimenhydrinate; nystagmus; vertigo

Indexed keywords

CINNARIZINE; DIMENHYDRINATE; MANNITOL;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MONOTHERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-ALLERGIC AGENTS; ANTIEMETICS; CINNARIZINE; DIMENHYDRINATE; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MANNITOL; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 3242674465     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(04)90130-0     Document Type: Article

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