Transtympanic electrocochleography in Menière's disease using clicks and tone-bursts.
Transtympanic electrocochleography (ECoG), using clicks and tone-bursts at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz, was employed to study 80 patients with Meniere's disease and 25 non-Meniere's patients. The magnitude of the negative summating potential and the summating potential:action potential ratio (SP:AP) were examined in both groups. Groups were further divided based upon degree of hearing loss and audiometric configuration. An elevated SP:AP ratio was found in 83.7 percent of the Meniere's ears and 12 percent of the non-Meniere's. The likelihood of obtaining a positive ECoG in Meniere's patients was strongly related to degree of hearing loss but not audiometric configuration.
Shea Clinic and Foundation, Memphis, Tennessee 38119.
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D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response / Q000379:methods*; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007758:Ear, Inner / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000503:physiopathology