Are intratympanic corticosteroids effective for Ménière’s disease?
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Intratympanic Therapies for Menière's disease.
There are multiple treatment options to consider when managing patients with Menière's disease. When conservative measures fail to control symptoms of Menière's disease, escalation of interventions may be required. Targeted drug delivery to the round window with intratympanic injections allows for local application of high concentrations of medications, largely avoiding systemic side effects. I...
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BACKGROUND Ménière's disease is a disorder characterised by hearing loss, tinnitus and disabling vertigo. The use of intratympanic steroids to reduce the severity of these symptoms has been gaining popularity. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of intratympanic steroids on the frequency and severity of attacks of vertigo, on chronic symptoms such as tinnitus, imbalance and hearing loss, a...
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BACKGROUND Ménière's disease is characterised by three major symptoms: vertigo, deafness and tinnitus, which may be accompanied by aural fullness, all of which are discontinuous and variable in intensity. While discontinuous, these symptoms are synchronous. Intratympanic application of gentamicin, an ototoxic aminoglycoside, is a relatively new ablative treatment for vertigo in Ménière's diseas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medwave
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0717-6384
DOI: 10.5867/medwave.2017.6863