Still dizzy after all these years: A 90-year-old woman with a 54-year history of dizziness

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Smirnova, Alina ^a   Bell, Stephanie H ^a   Tracy, C Shawn ^a   Upshur, Ross E G ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LEVOTHYROXINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; SIMVASTATIN; ZOPICLONE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYSTITIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART INFARCTION; HEPATITIS; HERNIOPLASTY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABYRINTHITIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIONAL VERTIGO; PRESYNCOPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STRESS; TINNITUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; VERTIGO; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WRIST FRACTURE;

EID: 80054014354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.05.2011.4247     Document Type: Article

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