Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
This paper focuses on the justification for changing the terminology of the most frequent peripheral vestibular disorder, called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Below, we argue that continued use of "benign" is a misnomer because many patients are adversely affected by BPPV. In addition, the term squanders its critical, distinguishing cause by omitting "peripheral." Instead, we support changing the nomenclature from BPPV to peripheral paroxysmal positional vertigo ([PPPV], or [3 PV]).
Authors
- Biru Zhang
- David S. Zee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3909-2494)
- Herman Kingma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-8224)
- Michael Halmagyi
- Francisco Carlos Zuma e Maia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-7151)
- Michael von Brevern
- Anita Bhandari
- Michael Strupp
- Ji-Soo Kim
- Michael C. Schubert
- Susan L. Whitney
- Thomas Brandt
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (AU)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Maastricht University Medical Centre (NL)
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (KR)
- LMU Klinikum (DE)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Equilibrium Research (GB)
- German Center for Lung Research (DE)
- Sociedade Brasileira de Oncologia Clínica (BR)
- Southern Medical University (CN)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurology
- Published
- 2026-03-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000214861
- Primary Topic
- Vestibular and auditory disorders
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00