title: [The control study of glycerol test in different stage of Meniere's disease patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the best time of the glycerol test on Meniere's disease patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The glycerol test was carried out two times on 72 Meniere's disease patients, one time in the period of onset and the other in the period of intermission.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The positive rate in the period of onset (83.3%) was far higher than in the period of intermission(43.1%), additionally, the positive rate is irrelevant to the degree of hearing impairing or the course of disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The glycerol test should be carried out in the period of onset as possible as you can to the suspicious patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Chengdu Railway Central Hospital, Chengdu, 610081, China. ljj8204@163.com
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Weihong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Haibing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D005260:Female; D005990:Glycerol; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008575:Meniere Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D005990:Glycerol