With the advent of modern scientific study of epilepsy initiated by the French in the 18th and 19th centuries, vertigo, not yet associated with disease of the inner ear or vestibular connections, assumed a specific role in the clinical gradation of seizure entities. It was believed to be the mildest form of epilepsy. Evidence for this abounds in the medical, legal, and even the popular literature at the end of the 19th century. The role of vertigo and its epileptic associations occupied the attention of most of the pioneer workers in epileptology of that era, and it was finally agreed that as a symptom the inner ear rather than epilepsy underlay its causation. Even today, epilepsy and vertigo are conceptually associated, sometimes erroneously.
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According to a press release form the NIH, a study has demonstrated that a disabling bone disorder, osteonecrosis of the hip, is surprisingly common among patients with HIV infection. The study results were presented during the Infectious Diseases Society of America's annual meeting Sept. 8 in New Orleans. The 15 patients with asymptomatic osteonecrosis had lesions in one or both hips and many of the lesions were large. The concern is that the lesions may lead to clinical symptoms ultimately requiring total hip replacements. The reason for this unexpected complication of osteonecrosis is unclear since this complication had not been seen until about a year ago although patients have been monitored for 17 years.