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What is Meniere's Disease?
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Meniere's Disease is a condition of the inner ear of unknown origin but characterized by excess endolymph in the vestibular and semicircular canals, causing increased fluid pressure in the inner ear.
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PANCE Blueprint EENT => Ear Disorders => Other abnormalities of the ear => Meniere’s Disease (https://smartypance.com/lessons/ear-disorders/other-abnormalities-of-the-ear-pearls/meniere-disease/)
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What is Meniere's Disease?
Meniere's Disease is a condition of the inner ear of unknown origin but characterized by excess endolymph in the vestibular and semicircular canals, causing increased fluid pressure in the inner ear.
What is another name for Meniere's Disease?
Idiopathic endolymphatic hydrops
Symptoms of Meniere's Disease?
Meniere's Disease presents with a classic triad of episodic vertigo, unilateral low-frequency sensorineural hearing loss, and tinnitus.
Peripheral causes of vertigo?
1. BPPV
2. Meniere disease
3. Vestibular neuritis
4. Labyrinthitis
5. Cholesteatoma
Difference between BPPV vs. Meniere vs. vestibular neuritis vs. labyrinthitis?
BPPV: episodes + no hearing loss
Meniere: episodes + hearing loss
Vestibular neuritis: continuous vertigo + no hearing loss
Labyrinthitis: continuous vertigo + hearing loss