MR SOLOMON ABRAMOVICH

Vertigo associated with peripheral inner ear is most commonly rotatory, but can be experienced as swaying or tilting of either the patient or surroundings. Movement and positional changes tend to make vertigo worse. Central vestibular lesions tend in the brain to produce less intense vertigo, positional changes have less effect and the patient may experience disturbance of gait and other neurological symptoms and signs... In many instances reassessment after 3 months is advisable because the majority of the fluid will resolve spontaneously. Unresolved middle ear effusion or glue with hearing loss requires myringotomy (making a small incision in the eardrum) sucking out the fluid through it and inserting a ventilation tube called a grommet. The ventilation tube or grommet remains in the tympanic membrane for about 12 months helping to reduce to normal the mucous producing mucosa in the middle ear and then it spontaneously extrudes from the tympanic membrane... The infection may become..

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Primary location: London United Kingdom