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Professor Adolfo Bronstein
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What is labyrinthitis?
Professor of Neuro-Otology, Adolfo Bronstein, says labyrnthitis is a inflammation, irritation or infection of the inner ear (also known as the labyrinth) but is over diagnosed because true labyrnthitis is very rare.
Transcript
The labyrinth is the other name for the inner ear, because it's really like a labyrinth in Greek mythology, full of canals and tubes and holes. And that labyrinth can get inflamed, can get so irritated or sort of infected. Any of those constitute labyrinthitis. So with labyrinthitis, a patient will get very vertiginous, very dizzy and deaf. Mind you, the term labyrinthitis is very much overused, particularly in the general practitioner world. It's a good word to tell the patients in general practise that the problem comes from the inner ear. But true labyrinthitis is rare.
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