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Vestibular Migraine Diagnosis and Treatment

Built from Haynes-Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, Seventh Edition

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8 sections · 100 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • Scope of this presentation

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Scale of the problem

    • Definition of vestibular migraine
    • Prevalence of migraine and vestibular migraine
    • Temporal relationship of headache and vertigo
    • Reasons the diagnosis is obscured
    • Internal ear: bony and membranous labyrinth
    • Planes of the semicircular canals
    • Crista ampullaris and cupula

    7 slides

  3. 03

    Diagnosing migraine

    • International Headache Society classification
    • Migraine without aura
    • Migraine with aura
    • Scintillating scotoma of visual aura
    • Migraine with brainstem aura
    • Brainstem: midbrain, pons and medulla
    • Bickerstaff's original description
    • Hemiplegic migraine
    • Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
    • Selected migraine types: episodes, duration, headache
    • Diagnostic criteria: Migraine without aura
    • Diagnostic criteria: Migraine with aura
    • Diagnostic criteria: Migraine with brainstem aura
    • Diagnostic criteria: Hemiplegic migraine
    • Diagnostic criteria: Vestibular migraine

    15 slides

  4. 04

    Criteria for diagnosing vestibular migraine

    • Why criteria were needed
    • The Bárány Society consensus
    • Vestibular migraine and probable vestibular migraine
    • Criteria for definite vestibular migraine
    • Criteria for probable vestibular migraine
    • Status in the ICHD third edition
    • Types of vestibular symptom recognised
    • Duration of vestibular symptoms
    • Severity grading of vestibular symptoms
    • Limitations of vestibular and auditory testing
    • Electronystagmographic findings in vestibular migraine

    11 slides

  5. 05

    Vestibular migraine and Ménière disease

    • Migraine prevalence in Ménière disease
    • Two explanations for the association
    • Neff series: cohort and groups
    • Features favouring Ménière disease
    • Features favouring vestibular migraine
    • The combined MDVM group
    • Audiometry and caloric testing in the differential
    • Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials

    8 slides

  6. 06

    Treatment: triggers and supplements

    • Challenges in treating vestibular migraine
    • Principles of management
    • Modalities of treatment
    • Trigger avoidance
    • Elimination and reintroduction protocol
    • Safe foods and the dietary journal
    • Non-dietary triggers
    • Trigger foods
    • Trigger foods (continued)
    • Vitamins and supplements
    • Cautions with supplements
    • Supplements and doses
    • Oral supplement preparations

    13 slides

  7. 07

    Pharmacotherapy

    • Abortive versus prophylactic therapy
    • Abortive migraine medication
    • Zolmitriptan randomised trial
    • Other abortive agent studies
    • Sumatriptan molecule
    • Classes used for migraine prophylaxis
    • Choosing a prophylactic agent
    • Beta blockers: mechanism
    • Beta blockers: indications and contraindications
    • PROVEMIG trial of metoprolol
    • Calcium channel blockers
    • Calcium channel blockers: safety profile
    • Tricyclic antidepressants
    • Tricyclics: adverse effects and contraindications
    • Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
    • Valproic acid
    • Lamotrigine and topiramate
    • Topiramate: adverse effects
    • Prophylactic drug therapy: class, agent and daily dose
    • Prophylactic drug therapy: side effects
    • Prophylactic drug therapy: contraindications

    21 slides

  8. 08

    Newer and adjunctive therapies

    • CGRP-targeted therapies
    • Evidence for anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies
    • Reported benefits and acute gepant therapy
    • Treatment strategy
    • Instituting prophylactic therapy
    • Vestibular physical therapy
    • OnabotulinumtoxinA: longitudinal fMRI study
    • OnabotulinumtoxinA: randomised controlled trial
    • Botulinum toxin in practice
    • Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation
    • Conclusion
    • References (1 of 4)
    • References (2 of 4)
    • References (3 of 4)
    • References (4 of 4)
    • Haynes-Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, Seventh Edition
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    17 slides