Initial Symptoms and Retrospective Evaluation of Prognosis in Meniere's Disease

Feeling of ear fullness in acute sensorineural hearing loss

“…On the other hand, FEF frequently appears in patients with acute sensorineural hearing loss (ASNHL) as does tinnitus. In particular, 61.0% of those with Meniere's disease [3], 63.5% with acute low tone sensorineural hearing loss [4] and 40.2% with sudden deafness [5] complain of FEF as the initial symptom. If hearing loss and vertigo or dizziness are the chief complaints, then FEF is generally not a serious problem for these patients.…”

Migraine‐Related Aural Fullness: A Potential Clinical Entity

“…1 Although a key symptom of many disorders, AF is generally regarded to be nonspecific with a variety of possible etiologies. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Persistent, idiopathic AF has a prevalence of 13.4%, and the second most common classification of patients with AF after eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD). 1 In this study, we retrospectively examined a cohort of patients who presented with isolated, prolonged AF.…”

Long-term prognosis of hearing loss in patients with unilateral Ménière’s disease

“…It is suggested that the deteriorated hearing loss at the initial visit at middle to high frequencies is a factor of poor prognosis of the hearing loss in patients with Ménière's disease, because the hearing loss at low frequencies is fluctuating and reversible at the early stage of the disease [5] and that at high frequencies tends to be irreversible and progressive [6,7].…”

“…On the other hand, it was also reported that sensorineural hearing loss in Ménière's disease deteriorated progressively until it reached a moderate or severe level [5][6][7]. Since the vertigo attacks decrease or disappear in the long-term course, the goal of treatment for Ménière's disease should be to prevent the progression of hearing loss that causes a reduction in the quality of life in the patients [4,8,9].…”