Symptom of vertigo and dizziness in patients with COVID-19

Abstract

The symptom of vertigo and dizziness is often detected in patients with COVID-19. The article discusses issues related to damage to the peripheral and vestibular parts of the vestibular analyzer in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The possible mechanisms of the pathogenesis of the development of cerebral stroke in this viral infection, its features are described. A description of the forms of damage to the peripheral part of the vestibular analyzer, including vestibular neuronitis, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Meniere’s disease, is presented. Other possible causes of the development of the symptom of vertigo and dizziness in patients with COVID-19 that are not associated with damage to the vestibular analyzer are also considered