Which vestibular tests are you currently relying on most for helping differentially diagnose vestibular migraine?
Answer:
“So there are no tests that help confirm your diagnosis. The tests help you distinguish other conditions. So let’s say if you’re worried about Meniere’s disease, then you do the audiograms that look for the unilateral, low frequency, sensorineural hearing loss. But there is no single test that will help diagnose vestibular migraine. It is a clinical diagnosis pretty much like Triple-P-D, MdDS. You need to take a good history, do an exam, make sure you don’t have any other problems before you make the diagnosis of vestibular migraine.”
RESOURCES & LINKS:
- This Q&A is an excerpt from the Vestibular Health Summit Sessions
- The Vestibular Health Summit Sessions are included with 360NeuroGO Enterprise
FACULTY:
Shin Beh, MD
Shin C. Beh, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. A neurologist, Dr. Beh is the founding Director of UT Southwestern’s Vestibular Neurology and Neuro-Visual Disorders Clinic and serves on the faculty of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Clinic. Dr. Beh’s research interests include vestibular migraine, and various other neuro-otologic disorders. He has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters and presented nearly 40 abstracts and invited lectures related to his specialty. Dr. Beh serves as a reviewer for journals that include JAMA Neurology; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry; Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders; The Neurologist; and Neurodegenerative Disease Management.
