Clinical Factors Relating to the Positive Glycerol Test for Ménière’s Disease
作者:
Yoshiro Yazawa,
Masaaki Kitahara,
Hideharu Matsubara,
期刊:
ORL
(Karger Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 52,
issue 3
页码: 149-155
ISSN:0301-1569
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1159/000276125
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Ménière’s disease;Glycerol test;Audiometry
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
In order to investigate the clinical factors relating to positive glycerol tests, 51 patients with Ménière’s disease were subjected to a complete battery of audiometric examinations, including the short increment sensitivity index, Bekesy, alternate binaural loudness balance, speech discrimination and pure-tone audiometry tests, both before and after glycerol ingestion. The correlation between positive glycerol tests and vestibular response, co-chlear symptoms, age at onset and disease duration was investigated. High ratios of positive tests were obtained in the following categories of patients with Ménière’s disease: elderly patients with vertiginous attacks; patients with high-level hearing loss; nystagmus patients, and patients with fluctuating heari
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