Meniere's disease: Therapeutic options
Meniere's disease (MD) is characterized by the triad of fluctuating hearing loss, episodic vertigo and tinnitus, and by endolymphatic hydrops found on postmortem examinations. Since the description of endolymphatic hydrops by Hallpike and Cairns, the physiopathology of Meniere's symptoms has been based on assumption that the pathologic lesion was the cause of the symptoms. Schuknecht proposed the theory of membranous rupture causing the mixing up of endolymph and perilymph leading to the occurrence of Meniere's symptoms. Lawrence confirmed this theory with research on experimental animals. In 1995 the AAO-HNS criteria defines "Possible MD (Grade D), Probable MD (Grade C), Definite MD (Grade…