Recent Trends in The Management of Meniere's Disease

Abstract

Background: Meniere's disease is a chronic illness affecting the quality of life and productivity of patients with minimal diagnostic tools available, limited options of treatment and a lot of follow up difficulties. we discuss old and recent tools helping in the diagnosis and the treatment of Meniere's disease. Aim of the study: Discussing recent modalities in the management of Meniere's disease including diagnosis, treatment and follow up. Methods: A literature review of recent tools in the management of Meniere's disease. Conclusion: Post contrast magnetic resonance imaging of endolymphatic hydrops is a very important diagnostic tool in the definite diagnosis of Meniere’s disease and we should consider intratympanic injection of gadolinium as another tool of contrast delivery in cases with no contraindications to this method. Follow up for Meniere’s disease cases is so substantial in the management of these cases so recent mobile applications helping in that should be put into consideration. Another field that light should be directed to is the regeneration of vestibular hair cells, also this field is still under research but it has a very essential role in the treatment of Meniere’s disease and more researches should be directed to this scope.