Magnetic resonance imaging findings in Ménière's disease

To identify and evaluate cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings associated with Ménière's disease. Seventy-eight patients with a documented diagnosis of Ménière's disease and 35 controls underwent 1.5 T or 3 T magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Patients also underwent otological...

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Published in:Journal of laryngology and otology 2017-07, Vol.131 (7), p.602-607
Main Authors: Patel, V A, Oberman, B S, Zacharia, T T, Isildak, H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Case-Control Studies
Disease
Ears & hearing
Female
Hearing loss
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Main Articles
Male
Medical diagnosis
Medical imaging
Medicine
Meniere Disease - diagnostic imaging
Meniere's disease
Middle Aged
Migraine
Multiple sclerosis
Neuroimaging
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Otolaryngology
Patients
Population studies
Reference Values
Retrospective Studies
Sinuses
Skull
Statistical analysis
Surgery
Tinnitus
Veins & arteries
Vertigo
Vestibular Aqueduct - abnormalities
Vestibular Aqueduct - diagnostic imaging
Vestibular system
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Summary:To identify and evaluate cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings associated with Ménière's disease. Seventy-eight patients with a documented diagnosis of Ménière's disease and 35 controls underwent 1.5 T or 3 T magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Patients also underwent otological, vestibular and audiometric examinations. Lack of visualisation of the left and right vestibular aqueducts was identified as statistically significant amongst Ménière's disease patients (left, p = 0.0001, odds ratio = 0.02; right, p = 0.0004, odds ratio = 0.03). Both vestibular aqueducts were of abnormal size in the Ménière's disease group, albeit with left-sided significance (left, p = 0.008, odds ratio = 10.91; right, p = 0.49, odds ratio = 2.47). Lack of vestibular aqueduct visualisation on magnetic resonance imaging was statistically significant in Ménière's disease patients compared to the general population. The study findings suggest that magnetic resonance imaging can be useful to rule out retrocochlear pathology and provide radiological data to support the clinical diagnosis of Ménière's disease.
ISSN:0022-2151
1748-5460
DOI:10.1017/S0022215117001086