めまい外来
めまい外来 (小林)
メニエール病、良性発作性頭位めまい症、突発性難聴、前庭神経炎などの診断をつけられたり、原因不明で診断がつられずに、めまい、難聴、耳鳴などが持続したり、発作性に繰り返されている患者様が対象です。
脳や脊髄の障害でないなどを問診や診察や検査で区別します。内耳の神経節の神経細胞の核に、水痘帯状疱疹ウイルスが休眠していて、免疫能が低下する度に再活性化することが考えられ、20年以上前から抗ヘルペスウイルス薬の治療で良好な成績が報告されています。
当院では耳鼻科がこの外来を行っております。外来は月曜(9:00-12:00)です。担当医は耳鼻科:小林潔子です。桔梗ヶ原病院の電話(0263-54-0012)で上記時間帯に当外来で、又は火・金曜の15:00-17:00に医事課で予約してください。
【Out-Patient-Clinic for Chronic Vertigo,Dizziness,Hearing-loss and/or Tinnitus(Shoji,Kobayashi) 】
The object of this out-patient-clinic are patients with diagnoses of Ménière’s disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, sudden deafness, vestibular neuritis and patients with chronic vertigo, dizziness, hearing-loss, and/or tinnitus of unknown cause. By asking a patient detailed questions about his /her symptoms, a medical examination and laboratory examinations, we distinguish the cause of the patient’s symptoms from the disorders of the brain or the spinal cord from the disorders of the internal ear. There have been a hypothesis that chronic vertigo, dizziness, hearing-loss, and/or tinnitus may be due to reactivation of dormant varicella-zoster virus in the vestibular nucleus and/or the spiral ganglion neuron (both are groups of nerve cell in the internal ear) which may be precipitated by weakened immune system. Since more than 20 years ago, there were reports that antiherpes virus drugs were very effective to chronic vertigo, dizziness, hearing-loss and/or tinnitus.
Kikyogahara hospital opened this out-patient-clinic in neurology and otolaryngology jointly.
Otolaryngologist is Dr. Kiyoko Kobayashi. This outpatient-clinic opens on Monday (9-12). You have to make an appointment for an interview in advance by calling up (0263-54-0012) this out-patient-clinic at the timing described above or hospital office on Tuesday, Friday at 15:00-17:00.