|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Dix-Hallpike manoeuvre
Also known as:
Dix-Hallpike test
Hallpike-Dix manoeuvre
Nylén-Bárány sign
Nylén-Bárany test
Associated persons:
Robert Bárány
Margaret R. Dix
Charles Skinner Hallpike
Carl-Olof Siggesson Nylén
Description:
A test to determine whether vertigo is triggered by certain head movements. The test is performed by making the patient undergo a rapid change from the erect sitting position to a supine position with the head hanging over the edge of the examining table to the left, right or center. A positive test is present when paroxysmal nystagmus is induced after a delay of about ten seconds.
Bibliography:
- R. Bárány:
Diagnose von des Cocklear und Vestibularapparates.
In: Max Lewandowsky (1876-1918), editor: Handbuch der Neurologie. Volume 1, part 2. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1910: 919-958.
- R. Bárány:
Diagnose von Krankheitserscheinungen im Bereiche des Otolithenapparates.
Acta oto-laryngologica, Stockholm, 1921, 2: 434-237.
- M. R. Dix and C. S. Hallpike:
The pathology, symptomatology and diagnosis of certain common disorders of the vestibular system. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, December 1952, 61 (4): 987-1016.
- Carl-Olof Nylen:
Position nystagmus. A review of future prospects.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 1950, 64: 395-418.
|
|
|
