Meniere's disease and fibrositis syndrome (psychogenic rheumatism). Relationship in audiometric and nystagmographic results.
A prospective neuro-otological study concerning 30 cases of fibrositis syndrome (psychogenic rheumatism, PR) and 30 age-matched normal controls was made and a retrospective study concerning 33 cases of Meniere's disease (MD) diagnosed and followed-up, examined between 1965 and 1982. Results showed: sensorineural hearing loss at low frequencies in all early stages of MD and in 10/30 of PR; hyperacusis (pain threshold below 100 dBHL bilaterally for all frequencies) without other sign of recruitment in 73.3% of PR and in 3/4 cases of MD where it was measured (discomfort or vertigo due to noise was noted retrospectively in 16/33 of early stages of MD); hyperreactivity of per-rotatory nystagmus in 53.3% of PR without neurological or peripheral vestibular lesions and, with or without vestibular unilateral lesions, in 39.9% of MD. None of the controls showed hyperacusis, hyperreactivity of per-rotatory nystagmus or deafness at low frequencies.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001299:Audiometry; D004584:Electronystagmography; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013577:Syndrome