Ménière’s Disease

I. Introduction.- 1. Concepts and Diagnostic Criteria of Ménière’s Disease.- 2. Ménière’s Disease with Bilateral Fluctuating Hearing Loss.- II. Pathophysiology of Ménière’s Disease.- 3. The Physical Strength of the Membranous Labyrinth and Its Relation to Endolymphatic Hydrops.- 4. Blood-Flow Regulation in the Vestibulum and Inner Ear Microvasculature in Experimental Hydrops: A Scanning Electron Microscopic Study.- 5. Electrophysiological Aspects of Surgically-Induced Endolymphatic Hydrops.- 6. The Developmental Pattern of Experimental Hydrops in the Endolymphatic Space.- 7. An Animal Model: Ménière’s Disease Attack.- 8. An Experimental Study on the Mechanism of the Ménière’s Attack: The Influence of High Perilymphatic Potassium Concentration on the Vestibular System.- 9. A Pathohistological Study with Four Kinds of Stress Stimulations on Active Endolymphatic Hydrops in Guinea Pigs.- 10. The Effect of Steroids on Endolymphatic Hydrops Induced by an Immunological Technique.- 11. A Pathoanatomical Study of the Endolymphatic Sac in Ménière’s Disease.- 12. Labyrinthine Anomaly and Endolymphatic Hydrops.- 13. An Anatomical Study on Cadavers with a History of Dizziness: Temporal Bone and Some Arteries, Nerve Roots, and Nuclei Related to the Internal Ear.- III. Symptomatology and Diagnosis of Ménière’s Disease.- 14. A Statistical Study on Patients with Ménière’s Disease Visiting Our Clinic During the Past 10 Years.- 15. Prediction of Prognosis for Hearing in Ménière’s Disease.- 16. A Clinical Study of the Diagnosis of the Endolymphatic Hydrops Aspect of Ménière’s Disease.- 17. The Significance of the Furosemide VOR Test for Ménière’s Disease.- 18. Pathogenesis of the Broad Waveform in Electrocochleograms.- 19. A Test for Predictingthe Next Episode in Ménière’s Disease.- 20. The Clinical Epidemiology of Ménière’s Disease: Functional Asymmetry.- 21. The Contribution of Otolaryngologists in the Diagnosis of Neuro-Otological Disease: Acoustic Neuromas.- IV. Treatment of Ménière’s Disease.- 22. The Treatment of Ménière’s Disease with Isosorbide.- 23. Transdermal Scopolamine in the Treatment of Vertiginous Episodes Associated with Ménière’s Disease.- 24. The Status of Endolymphatic Sac Surgery.- V. Other Diseases with Endolymphatic Hydrops.- 25. Endolymphatic Hydrops Induced by Chronic Otitis Media.- 26. Sudden Deafness with Bilateral Endolymphatic Hydrops.- 27. Secondary or Idiopathic Endolymphatic Hydrops?.