The controversy centers on Dr. Friedrich Wegener, a German pathologist who in 1936 identified a rare blood vessel inflammation that since the 1950s has been called Wegenerâs granulomatosis. The American College of Chest Physicians awarded Wegener a âmaster clinicianâ prize in 1989, a year before he died. Advertisement.
Dizziness or vertigo is also a common symptom or side effect of the treatment of ovarian cancer. During an episode of vertigo, women feel that the whole world around them is spinning or jerking up and down or sideways.
The most common causes of dizziness without vertigo include the following: Drug effects. Multifactorial causes. Several kinds of drugs can cause dizziness. Some drugs are directly toxic to the nerves of the ears and/or balance organs (ototoxic drugs). Other drugs, for example, sedatives, affect the brain as a whole.