メニエ-ル病の臨床的観察--保存的治療によるめまいと聴力の経過について (前庭機能異常の研究-2-<特集>)

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Our 55 patients with Meniere's disease were statistically analysed on the age and hearing. As the results, Meniere's disease was found most frequently in the ages of thirty, forty and fifties. The average hearing loss was 27.7dB. These results were almost similar to the many previous reports. Furthermore, 24 new patients who could be followed their course were investigated on the effect of conservative therapy for vertigo and hearing. As the conservative treatment, vasodilator, vitamin and minor tranquilizer were used.Consequently, vertigo was improved in 95.8% of the patients by the conservative therapy. However, these patients were not completely free from any vertiginous attack.On the other hand, hearing rather became worse in 33.3% of the patients even after the improvement of vertigo. In the literature, we can find many reports about the results of conservative and surgical treatment for Meniere's disease. However, their results also show that the surgical treatment is not always good for vertigo improvement and hearing preservation in Meniere's disease.From these points of view, we emphasized that new and better methods of treatment for Meniere's disease should be developed in the near future.