Ménière's disease in childhood.
We report 3 rare cases of Ménière's disease in children. In Case 1 and 3, vertigo, hearing loss and tinnitus recovered soon after medical therapy. In Case 2, however, vertigo recurred and the hearing level on the right side markedly deteriorated. The equal-loudness contours on three-dimensional audiogram showed that right-sided aggravated hearing loss fluctuated for 4 years at middle-and low-frequencies despite medication. Finally intratympanic injection of gentamicin sulfate was performed. The patient has had no definitive spell of vertigo after gentamicin therapy. At our department, the incidence of Ménière's disease in pediatric patients with vertigo was 2.9%.
Akagi
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Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama-shi, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. akagih@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
Yuen
K
K
Maeda
Y
Y
Fukushima
K
K
Kariya
S
S
Orita
Y
Y
Kataoka
Y
Y
Ogawa
T
T
Nishizaki
K
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005839:Gentamicins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014717:Vertigo / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005839:Gentamicins