Ménière's disease: damaged hearing but reduced vertigo
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Ménière's disease: damaged hearing but reduced vertigo
Current thinking is that Ménière’s disease (or, more accurately, Ménière’s syndrome) is a phenotype of unstable or erratic inner ear hearing and vestibular function that arises from failure of one or more of the many inner ear homoeostatic systems that regulate endolymph and perilymph, aff erent and eff erent nerve signalling, and blood fl ow. Clinically, the fl uctuating and progressive sensor...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)32166-3