Ménière's disease is defined as an idiopathic syndrome characterized by endolymphatic hydrops. Various tests and measurement methods have been employed for the diagnosis of Ménière's disease. These include audiological, vestibular, radiological, clinical, and biochemical tests. However, the lack of a definitive or gold standard diagnostic test sometimes complicates the process of diagnosis. Hen...

Although double-blind experimental designs are considered the gold standard for documenting treatment effectiveness, many treatments for Ménière's disease have not been evaluated using this methodology. Particularly with a disease characterized by exacerbation and remission, carefully controlled, long-term studies are required. The nature of the placebo effect is described in this article, and ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of portable Meniett low-pressure pulse generator (Medtronic Xomed, Jacksonville, FL) in Meniere disease. STUDY DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial carried out in 17 academic medical centers. METHODS One hundred twenty-nine adults presenting Meniere disease (American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery criteria...

Introduction: Definite Meniere's diseaseis associated with two or more definitive periods of vertigo along with hearing loss, plus tinnitus or aural fullness or both. This study aimed to compare the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone and methylprednisolone on the functional-level scale of pure-tone audiometry (PTA), and class outcome measures of vertigo.  Materials and Methods: In this clini...

AIM To point out the similarity of Meniere disease and spontaneous intracranial hypotension and difference of their treatment. METHODS A case of a 54-year-old male patient with previously diagnosed Meniere's disease and newly diagnosed spontaneous intracranial hypotension syndrome is presented. Additional neuroradiological examination, Brain contrast-enhanced MRI and MR myelography were used ...

Materials and Methods: This prospective study included three groups, 38 patients with Meniere’s disease (41 ears), 30 patients with cochlear hearing loss other than Meniere’s disease (40 ears) and 25 healthy subjects (40 ears). Tympanic membrane ECoG (click and tone-burst evoked) and caloric test were performed. Forty one ears with Meniere’s disease were categorized into definite (28 ears) and ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our purpose was to determine the frequency of abnormal findings on contrast-enhanced high-resolution MR imaging studies in patients with sudden hearing loss. METHODS Seventy-eight consecutive patients with sudden hearing loss underwent contrast-enhanced MR imaging of the temporal bone, cerebellopontine angle, and brain. Additional tests included audiologic examination, ...

These forty studies were compiled from PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), a NIH database that contains a listing of peer-reviewed scientific and medical studies. These are the relevant studies found when searching for "virus" and "meniere" in papers that include an abstract. Of these forty papers, thirty supported a viral etiology for Meniere's, four were equivocal, and six did not su...