Ménière’s disease (MD) is an idiopathic inner ear disorder, characterised by episodes of vertigo, tinnitus, sensorineural hearing loss, and aural fullness in the affected ear. The relatively high variability of symptomological changes renders it difficult to confirm the MD diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to compare the diagnostic power of an instrumental method, electrocochleography (ECochG), and two subjective methods, including the criteria based on the clinical guidelines provided by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Committee on Hearing Equilibrium (AAO-HNS CHE) and Gibson’s Score.
A quota sampling method was used to include subjects. A total of 250 potential MD patients who were referred to the Department of Otolaryngology at the Christchurch Hospital between year 1994 and 2009 have had their signs and symptoms documented and ECochG testing completed. A selection of details obtained from both AAO-HNS CHE and ECochG assessment results were examined as a chart review in regard to its function as a diagnostic tool for MD.
The between-method reliability was found to be high, with a few disagreements on individual diagnosis. Based on a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, the ECochG measures were shown to be pertinent to the diagnosis of MD. It was also found that patients tested “positive”, as compared with those tested “negative”, tended to show higher correlations among the four key symptoms of MD and among the ECochG measures derived from the auditory evoked responses to tone bursts at frequencies in close proximity to each other.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/4023 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Kalin, Catherine Julia |
| Publisher | University of Canterbury. Communication Disorders |
| Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
| Rights | Copyright Catherine Julia Kalin, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
| Relation | NZCU |
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