Journal of the Korean Balance Society  2006;5(2):277-280

Vestibular Neuritis of Vascular Cause .

Hyun Ah KIM ; Hyung LEE ; Byung Rim PARK

Keywords

Vestibular neuritis; Cerebral infarction

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Vestibular neuritis (VN) is an idiopathic peripheral vestibular syndrome characterized by acute isolated prolonged vertigo. In most cases, it results from inflammation of the vestibular nerve presumably of viral origin. There has been no previous report of VN associated with a vascular cause. We here report a patient with VN of vascular origin who presented with acute onset of prolonged isolated vertigo, a unilateral decreased caloric response, and simultaneously with acute infarcts on brain MRI that were unrelated to patient's vertigo.