A new hypothesis on the plurifactorial etiology of Meniere's disease.
Meniere's disease is characterized by an extremely long trend: this fact, as in other diseases of very wide chronicity, permits one to formulate a special type of hypothesis regarding the aetiology and the pathogenesis of the disease; it is comprised of many individual factors, of differing chronology and which are connected to each other with successive causality. This hypothesis was founded on a large body of data concerning the multiple histopathological effects on the inner ear of an initially inflammatory disease of the middle ear.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004487:Edema / Q000150:complications; D004710:Endolymph; D004711:Endolymphatic Duct / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007762:Labyrinthitis / Q000150:complications; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009393:Nephritis / Q000150:complications; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D012405:Round Window, Ear / Q000473:pathology; D012665:Semicircular Canals / Q000473:pathology; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000473:pathology