Which of the following is the MOST common morbidity associated with Meniere's disease?
Patients with Meniere's disease often have transient hearing loss in the affected ear(s) during the veigo episodes. With repeated episodes, the veigo often improves, but the hearing loss can become permanent. Patients with Meniere's disease can usually be treated with medication to reduce their veigo (antihistamines such as meclizine, anticholinergics such as scopolamine, benzodiazepines such as diazepam); some cases with incapacitating veigo are treated with surgery or ototoxic drugs (such as high dose streptomycin). Meniere disease is unrelated to middle or outer ear infection. Meniere disease is apparently unrelated to tumor. Ref: Johnson J., Lalwani A.K. (2012). Chapter 56. Vestibular Disorders. In A.K. Lalwani (Ed), CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery, 3e
Chronic otitis externa
Chronic otitis media
Permanent hearing loss
Secondary development of a craniopharyngioma