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Causes of Nystagmus
This section discusses 287 medical conditions causing Nystagmus. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Nystagmus:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Nystagmus.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Alcohol
- Trauma
- Multiple sclerosis
- Congenital
- Vertigo
- Acute labyrinthitis
- Medications
- Stroke
- Brain tumour
- Meniere's disease
- Pituitary tumour
- Encephalitis
- Heat stroke
- Syphilis
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Ischemic lesions of the vestibular nerve
- Ischemic lesions of the labyrinth
- Benign positional vertigo
- Head injury
- Drug intoxication
- Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Brain tumor
- Cerebrovascualr accident (see Stroke symptoms)
- Head trauma
- Mèniére's disease
- Brain cyst (see Brain tumor)
- Brain abscess
- Brain bleed (see Stroke symptoms)
- Inner ear infection
- Inner ear inflammation
- Inner ear tumor
- Parinaud syndrome
- Friedreich's ataxia
Causes of Nystagmus listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Nystagmus as a symptom include:
- Abetalipoproteinaemia
- Achromatopsia
- Acoustic neuroma
- Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Barbiturates
- Benign positional vertigo
- Blue cone monochromatism
- Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome
- Cerebellar syndrome
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Chediak-Higashi disease
- Cholesteatoma
- Clonazepam
- Congenital stationary night blindness
- Decompression sickness
- Diazepam
- Down syndrome
- Ethanol
- Ethotoin
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Gabapentin
- Glomus jugulare tumor
- Kallmann syndrome
- Klippel-Feil syndrome
- Koerber-Salus-Elshnig syndrome
- Lithium
- Lorazepam
- Lowry-Wood syndrome
- Miner's nystagmus
- Multiple sclerosis
- Ocular albinism type 1
- Oculocutaneous albinism (tyrosinase negative)
- Oculocutaneous albinism type 3
- Oculocutaneous albinism type 4
- Oxazepam
- Phenytoin
- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Rufous oculocutaneous albinism
- Syringobulbia
- Temazepam
- Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency
- Usher's syndrome
- Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
- Vestibular neuronitis
- X-linked cone-rod dystrophy
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Nystagmus:
The following list of conditions have 'Nystagmus' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Nystagmus
- Nystagmus: Introduction
- Medical Textbooks Online for Nystagmus
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- Travel-related causes of Nystagmus
- Diabetes-related causes of Nystagmus
- Sexual causes of Nystagmus
List of 287 causes of Nystagmus
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Nystagmus in our database from various sources.
- 18p minus syndrome - nystagmus
- Abetalipoproteinaemia
- Abetalipoproteinemia - nystagmus
- Ablinism I syndrome - nystagmus
- Absence of septum pellucidum and septo-optic dysplasia - nystagmus
- Absence of septum pellucidum with porencephalia syndrome - nystagmus
- Acanthocytosis - nystagmus
- Achromatopsia
- Achromatopsia incomplete, X-linked - nystagmus
- Acoustic neuroma
- Acute labyrinthitis
- Adams Nance syndrome - nystagmus
- Adrenoleukodystrophy, autosomal, neonatal form - nystagmus
- Adversive syndrome - nystagmus
- Albinism - nystagmus
- Alcohol
- Alcohol abuse - nystagmus
- Alstrom syndrome - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 1 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 10 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 11 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 2 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 3 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 4 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 5 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 6 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 7 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 8 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis congenita of Leber, type 9 - nystagmus
- Amaurosis hypertrichosis - nystagmus
- Ampola syndrome - nystagmus
- Amyloidosis, oculoleptomeningeal - nystagmus
- Aniridia - nystagmus
- Aniridia - ptosis - mental retardation - obesity, familial - nystagmus
- Aniridia, sporadic - nystagmus
- Arima syndrome - nystagmus
- Arnold Stickler Bourne syndrome - nystagmus
- Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Arnold-Chiari malformation type 3 - nystagmus
- Arnold-Chiari malformation type 4 - nystagmus
- Arthritis - short stature - deafness - nystagmus
- Ataxia spastic congenital miosis - nystagmus
- Ataxia tapetoretinal degeneration - nystagmus
- Ataxia, Hereditary, Autosomal Dominant - nystagmus
- Ataxia, spastic with congenital miosis - nystagmus
- Auricular abnormalities - cleft lip with or without cleft palate - ocular abnormalities - nystagmus
- Auriculoocular anomalies - cleft lip - nystagmus
- Babinski-Nageotte syndrome - nystagmus
- Barbiturates
- Bardet-Biedl Syndrome - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 1 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 10 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 11 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 12 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 2 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 3 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 4 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 5 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 6 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 7 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 8 - nystagmus
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome, type 9 - nystagmus
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo - Nystagmus
- Benign positional vertigo
- Blue cone monochromatism
- Bone marrow failure - neurologic abnormalities - nystagmus
- Bonnier's syndrome - nystagmus
- Borjeson Syndrome - nystagmus
- Brachmann-De Lange Syndrome - nystagmus
- Brain abscess
- Brain bleed
- Brain cyst
- Brain tumor
- Brain tumour
- Branchio-skeleto-genital syndrome - nystagmus
- Brown-Symmers disease - nystagmus
- Céstan-Chenais syndrome - nystagmus
- Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome - nystagmus
- Cataract and cardiomyopathy - nystagmus
- Cataract, microphthalmia and nystagmus - nystagmus
- Caudal appendage - deafness - nystagmus
- Cerebellar abscess - nystagmus
- Cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy and sensorinural hearing loss - nystagmus
- Cerebellar ataxia, X-linked - nystagmus
- Cerebellar degeneration - nystagmus
- Cerebellar hypoplasia - endosteal sclerosis - nystagmus
- Cerebellar hypoplasia - tapetoretinal degeneration - nystagmus
- Cerebellar syndrome
- Cerebelloparenchymal autosomal recessive disorder 3 - nystagmus
- Cerebral abscess - nystagmus
- Cerebro oculo skeleto renal syndrome - nystagmus
- Cerebrorenodigital syndrome - nystagmus
- Cerebrovascualr accident
- Cerebrovascular accident
- Chediak-Higashi disease
- Cholesteatoma
- Chorioretinal atrophy, progressive bifocal - nystagmus
- Chromosome 10, trisomy 10pter p13 - nystagmus
- Chromosome 10p duplication syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 11q duplication syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 15q triplication syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 18 deletion syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 18q, partial deletion - nystagmus
- Chromosome 6 ring syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 6, monosomy 6p23 - nystagmus
- Chromosome 8 recombinant syndrome - nystagmus
- Chromosome 8p deletion syndrome - nystagmus
- Clonazepam
- Cockayne syndrome - nystagmus
- Coloboma chorioretinal cerebellar vermis aplasia - nystagmus
- Combarros Calleja Leno syndrome - nystagmus
- Congenital
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1/IIX - nystagmus
- Congenital stationary night blindness
- Corneal dystrophy - ichthyosis - microcephaly - mental retardation - nystagmus
- Craniofacial dysostosis type 1 - nystagmus
- CRAPB - nystagmus
- Dandy-Walker - facial hemangioma - nystagmus
- Dandy-Walker malformation with mental retardation, macrocephaly, myopia, and brachytelephalangy - nystagmus
- Decompression sickness
- Diazepam
- Dobrow syndrome - nystagmus
- Donepezil toxicity - nystagmus
- Down syndrome
- Drug intoxication
- Encephalitis
- Encephalitis, California serogroup viral - Nystagmus
- Episodic ataxia, type 2 - nystagmus
- Episodic ataxia, type 4 - nystagmus
- Episodic ataxia, type 5 - nystagmus
- Ermine phenotype - nystagmus
- Erythrokeratodermia with ataxia - nystagmus
- Ethanol
- Ethotoin
- Fabry's Disease - nystagmus
- Fanconi pancytopenia - nystagmus
- Fanconi-Turler syndrome - nystagmus
- Fitzsimmons-McLachlan-Gilbert syndrome - nystagmus
- Forsius-Eriksson syndrome - nystagmus
- Francois dyscephalic syndrome - nystagmus
- Friedreich's ataxia
- Gabapentin
- Gangliosidosis generalized GM1, type 1 - nystagmus
- Glomus jugulare tumor
- GM1 gangliosidosis - nystagmus
- Griscelli disease - nystagmus
- Griscelli syndrome type II - nystagmus
- Hajdu-Cheney Syndrome - nystagmus
- Head injury
- Head trauma
- Heat stroke
- Hemiplegic migraine, familial type 1 - nystagmus
- Hepatic encephalopathy syndrome - nystagmus
- Hersh-Podruch-Weisskopk syndrome - nystagmus
- Homocystinuria due to defect in methylation (cbl g) - nystagmus
- Homocystinuria due to defect in methylation cbl e - nystagmus
- Hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase, type 2, deficiency - nystagmus
- Hypertrophic neuropathy of Dejerine-Sottas - nystagmus
- Hypomagnesemia primary - nystagmus
- Hypomyelination - hypogonadotropic hypogonadism - hypodontia - nystagmus
- Incontinentia Pigmenti - nystagmus
- Infantile sialic acid storage disorder - nystagmus
- Inner ear infection
- Inner ear inflammation
- Inner ear tumor
- Ischemic lesions of the labyrinth
- Ischemic lesions of the vestibular nerve
- Kallmann syndrome
- Karandikar-Maria-Kamble syndrome - nystagmus
- Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome - nystagmus
- Klippel-Feil syndrome
- Koerber-Salus-Elshnig syndrome
- Krause-Kivlin syndrome - nystagmus
- Labrynthitis - nystagmus
- Lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia, recessive - nystagmus
- Lithium
- Lorazepam
- Lowry-Wood syndrome
- Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone, deficiency of, with ataxia - nystagmus
- Mèniére's disease
- Macular dystrophy, retinal, 1, North Carolina type - nystagmus
- Manz syndrome - nystagmus
- Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome - nystagmus
- Medications
- Meier-Blumberg-Imahorn syndrome - nystagmus
- Meniere's disease
- Mental retardation - blepharophimosis - obesity - web neck - nystagmus
- Mental retardation - macrocephaly - coarse facies - hypotonia - nystagmus
- Mental retardation - skeletal dysplasia - abducens palsy - nystagmus
- Mental retardation, Mietens-Weber type - nystagmus
- Methylcobalamin deficiency, cbl E complementation type - nystagmus
- Microcephaly - mental retardation - retinopathy - nystagmus
- Microcephaly - microphthalmos - blindness - nystagmus
- Minamata disease - nystagmus
- Miner's nystagmus
- MOMO syndrome - nystagmus
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuroaxonal dystrophy - renal tubular acidosis - nystagmus
- Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome - nystagmus
- Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease - nystagmus
- Night blindness, congenital stationary, type 2A - nystagmus
- Night blindness, congenital stationary, type 2B - nystagmus
- Noonan Syndrome - nystagmus
- Ocular albinism - nystagmus
- Ocular albinism type 1
- Oculo-osteo-cutaneous syndrome - nystagmus
- Oculocerebral hypopigmentation syndrome, type Preus - nystagmus
- Oculocutaneous albinism (tyrosinase negative)
- Oculocutaneous albinism type 3
- Oculocutaneous albinism type 4
- Oculopalatoskeletal syndrome - nystagmus
- OFD syndrome type 8 - nystagmus
- OFD syndrome type IX - nystagmus
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy - deafness - nystagmus
- Ophthalmoplegia, progressive external - scoliosis - nystagmus
- Opthalmoplegia progressive external scoliosis - nystagmus
- Optic atrophy, idiopathic, autosomal recessive - nystagmus
- Optic pathway glioma - nystagmus
- Osteosclerosis, abnormalities of nervous system and meninges - nystagmus
- Oxazepam
- Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration - nystagmus
- Parinaud syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease - nystagmus
- Pellagra-like syndrome - nystagmus
- Pena-Shokeir syndrome Type 2 - nystagmus
- Phenytoin
- Phenytoin toxicity - nystagmus
- Phillips-Griffiths syndrome - nystagmus
- Pierson syndrome - nystagmus
- Pituitary tumour
- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery syndrome
- Proud-Levine-Carpenter syndrome - nystagmus
- Pseudoadrenoleukodystrophy - nystagmus
- Ramsay Hunt syndrome
- Red skin pigment anomaly of New Guinea - nystagmus
- Retinal degeneration - nanophthalmos - glaucoma - nystagmus
- Retinal dysplasia, X-linked - nystagmus
- Retinis pigmentosa - deafness - hypogenitalism - nystagmus
- Retinitis pigmentosa - mental retardation - deafness - nystagmus
- Richieri Costa Guion-Almeida syndrome - nystagmus
- Rufous oculocutaneous albinism
- Sensory ataxic neuropathy, dysarthria, and ophthalmoparesis - nystagmus
- Septo-Optic Dysplasia - nystagmus
- Sialidosis type 1 and 3 - nystagmus
- Sialuria, Finnish type - nystagmus
- Singh-Chhaparwal-Dhanda syndrome - nystagmus
- Spastic paraplegia 16, X-linked - nystagmus
- Spastic paraplegia 2, X-linked - nystagmus
- Spastic paraplegia 7, autosomal recessive - nystagmus
- Sphingolipidosis - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia - dysmorphism - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 10 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 11 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 12 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 13 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 15 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 16 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 17 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 25 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 26 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 27 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 28 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia 29 - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia, autosomal dominant - nystagmus
- Spinocerebellar ataxia, X-linked, 5 - nystagmus
- Stroke
- Syphilis
- Syringobulbia
- Tacrine toxicity - nystagmus
- Temazepam
- Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency
- Trauma
- Unusual facies, hepatic fibrosis, renal cysts and mental retardation - nystagmus
- Urban Schosser Spohn syndrome - Nystagmus
- Usher's syndrome
- Verloes-Deprez syndrome - nystagmus
- Vertebrobasilar dolichoectasia
- Vertigo
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Volubilis, syndrome du - nystagmus
- WAGR Syndrome - nystagmus
- Wallenberg's Syndrome - Nystagmus
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome - Nystagmus
- Wilkie Taylor Scambler syndrome - Nystagmus
- X-linked cone-rod dystrophy
- Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome - Nystagmus
- Zonular cataract and nystagmus - Nystagmus
Drug side effect causes of Nystagmus
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Nystagmus as a side effect.
Medical Textbooks about Nystagmus (Full Online Access)
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