Mal de debarquement syndrome (MDDS): clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on mal de debarquement syndrome (mdds): clinical features: Clinical features This is a sensation of rocking, bobbing, swaying or bouncing It typically follows sea travel but it may occur after plane, train, and car travel It develops immediately after…

Clinical features

  • This is a sensation of rocking, bobbing, swaying or bouncing
  • It typically follows sea travel but it may occur after plane, train, and car travel
  • It develops immediately after disembarkation in about 45% of cases
  • It develops within one hour of disembarkation in 80% of cases
  • The symptoms occur whilst walking or lying down
  • They are exacerbated by eye closure, head tilt, and lying down

Demographic features

Onset types

Classification

Diagnostic criteria

Associated physical features

Associated neuropsychiatric features

Differential diagnosis

Outcomes

References

  1. Saha KC, Fife TD. Mal de debarquement syndrome: review and proposed diagnostic criteria. Neurol Clin Pract June 2015; 5:209-215.
  2. Cha YH. Mal de debarquement. Semin Neurol 2009; 29:520-527. 
  3. Van Ombergen A, Van Rompaey V, Maes LK, Van de Heyning PH, Wuyts FL. Mal de debarquement syndrome: a systematic review. J Neurol 2016; 263:843-854.
  4. Cha YH, Brodsky J, Ishiyama G, Sabatti C, Baloh RW. Clinical features and associated syndromes of mal de debarquement. J Neurol 2008; 255:1038-1044. 
  5. Mucci V, Canceri JM, Brown R, et al. Mal de debarquement syndrome: a survey on subtypes, misdiagnoses, onset and associated psychological features. J Neurol 2018; 265:486-499. 
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