Clinical features and management of Meniere's disease patients with drop attacks
Clinical features and management of Meniere's disease patients with drop attacks
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梅尼埃病跌倒发作患者的临床特征及治疗
DOI:
10.1007/s00405-018-5260-5
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发表时间:
2019-03-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Dai, Chunfu
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作者:
Wu, Qianru;Li, Xuanyi;Dai, Chunfu
PurposeThe aims of the present study are to investigate the variations in clinical features, including medical history, hearing function, vestibular function, and degree of endolymphatic hydrops (EH), in Meniere's disease (MD) patients with and without drop attacks (DAs), and to examine the efficacy of intratympanic gentamicin (ITG) treatment in alleviating DAs.MethodsIn total, 177 unilateral definite MD patients, including 16 patients with DAs and 161 patients without DAs, were enrolled. The results of hearing test, vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were analyzed. Thirteen patients with DAs received a single ITG treatment and were followed up.ResultsThe disease course of MD in the DA group was significantly longer than that in the control group (p=0.007). MD patients with DAs had significantly greater hearing loss and worse EH than MD patients without DAs (p