Background: Meniere’s disease is a clinical disorder defined as the idiopathic syndrome of endolymphatic hydrops. has prevalence about 200 cases per 100,000 people in United States. Prevalence increases linearly with increasing age, especially over 60 years. Men and women are estimated to be proportional number cases. The etiology currently known caused by intrinsic factors extrinsic factors. S...

These forty studies were compiled from PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed), a NIH database that contains a listing of peer-reviewed scientific and medical studies. These are the relevant studies found when searching for "virus" and "meniere" in papers that include an abstract. Of these forty papers, thirty supported a viral etiology for Meniere's, four were equivocal, and six did not su...

both genetic and environmental factors seem to play role in the etiology of meniere's disease (md). several genes may be involved in susceptibility of md including human leukocyte antigens (hla). the associations between md and hla alleles have been previously studied in other populations and certain hla alleles were shown to be predisposing. the aim of this study was to determine the associati...

Dizziness is a common yet imprecise symptom. It was traditionally divided into four categories based on the patient's history: vertigo, presyncope, disequilibrium, and light-headedness. However, the distinction between these symptoms is of limited clinical usefulness. Patients have difficulty describing the quality of their symptoms but can more consistently identify the timing and triggers. Ep...