Tatyana Pronko

Abstract: Dizziness and vertigo: causes, diagnosis, principles of treatment Dizziness is a nonspecific symptom that describes a sensation of abnormal rotation of the head, or the sensation of the external environment spinning. It affects 50% of elderly patients and is the commonest cause of complaint in patients over 75 years of age. It may be physiological, occurring during or after a sustained head rotation, or pathological, due to vestibular dysfunction. It divided to peripheral and central. Peripheral vertigo is due to disorders that affect the labyrinths or vestibular nerves. Central vestibular causes are multiple sclerosis, migraine, epilepsy. Vertigo may be paroxysmal or chronic. In diagnosing the vertigo causes, we will use the data of physical examination, special tests, data of laboratory and instrumental examination. Treatment depends on the causes of dizziness.

Speaker: Tatyana Pronko, MD, PhD is a Head of the Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases of Grodno State Medical University, Belarus since 2012. She defended scientific degree (PhD) "Study of endothelial dysfunction and blood oxygen transport system in patients with arterial hypertension and coronary artery disease” in 2003. Pronko T. is scientific supervisor of 1 scientific theses “Study of arterial stiffness in patients with arterial hypertension after ischemic stroke”. In the near future, two more people are planning to defend their thesis completed under her supervision. Current research interests include platelet aggregation, clinical and laboratory factors influencing high and low residual platelet reactivity in patients with myocardial infarction.She has over 290 publications, 22 of them are in Web of Sciences and Scopus bases. She is member of European Cardiology Society and Russian Cardiology Society.