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Initial UK experience of patient satisfaction with the Meniett® device for Ménière's disease treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2010

M A Buchanan ,
A Rai  and
P R Prinsley
M A Buchanan*
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and James Paget University Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
A Rai
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and James Paget University Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
P R Prinsley
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and James Paget University Hospital, Great Yarmouth, UK
*
Address for correspondence: Mr M A Buchanan, Beck House, 137B Cambridge Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5JJ, UK. E-mail: malcolm_buchanan123@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Objectives:

To evaluate patient satisfaction and symptom improvement following treatment of Ménière's disease with the Meniett® device.

Methods:

Retrospective, questionnaire-based audit and analysis of unilateral Ménière's disease patients’ records, following on from a previous study from our departments on intra-tympanic gentamicin for Ménière's disease, using the Vertigo Symptom Scale and Glasgow Benefit Inventory as outcome measures.

Results:

Of 33 consecutive patients treated with the Meniett® device for four to six weeks, 30 responded to the questionnaires (90.9 per cent). Respondents’ mean Vertigo Symptom Scale score was 0.7 (range 0–2.1), and their mean Glasgow Benefit Inventory general subscale score was 24.1. Nineteen (63.3 per cent) patients felt that the device had alleviated their vertigo and tinnitus.

Conclusions:

This is the first UK study of the effectiveness of the Meniett® device in treating Ménière's disease. It shows that the Meniett® device is a well tolerated, useful and minimally invasive means of treating Ménière's disease after medical treatment has failed, and before more potentially cochleo- and vestibulo-toxic therapies and invasive procedures are utilised.

Keywords

Ménière's DiseaseMeniett® DeviceOutcome AssessmentVertigo

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 124 , Issue 10 , October 2010 , pp. 1067 - 1072
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2010

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