Effect of atmospheric pressure on hearing in patients with Menière's disease.
Hearing in patients with Menière's disease improved when they were treated in an underpressure chamber. In this study 46 patients with neurotological diseases, including 32 cases of Menière's disease, were tested in an overpressure chamber. As a result, hearing in 32% of the patients with Menière's disease improved, although this was lower than the 50% rate of improvement in Menière's disease patients tested in an underpressure chamber.
Kitahara
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Department of Otolaryngology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
Kodama
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Izukura
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Ozawa
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D001273:Atmosphere Exposure Chambers; D001274:Atmospheric Pressure; D015834:Cochlear Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D004244:Dizziness / Q000503:physiopathology; D005402:Fistula / Q000503:physiopathology; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology; D003639:Hearing Loss, Sudden / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D009622:Noise / Q000517:prevention & control; D010498:Perilymph