Meniere's Disease: What's New in 2021? (AMW)
2021 AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
Patients with Meniere’s disease are frequently encountered by Otolaryngologists, primary care providers, Neurologists, and emergency department physicians. Many different treatment options for patients with Meniere’s disease are available, but the efficacy of each treatment is variable. This can make the management of these patients challenging and may contribute to a wide variability in practice. To address these issues, the Equilibrium Committee has created a panel to discuss the most recent Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Meniere's disease (Otolaryngology Head Neck Surg. 2020;163, Suppl 2). By doing so, the practitioner should become more knowledgeable about the current diagnostic and treatment options, which should lead to more uniformity of care, less usage of unnecessary testing, and better utilization of evidence-based treatments. This should lead to better outcomes and improved quality of life for patients with Meniere's disease. The panel will begin by discussing the evolution of thought concerning the pathogenesis of Meniere's disease and will go over the overlap between it and vestibular migraine. In addition, the diagnosis of definite and probable Meniere's will be discussed, with an emphasis on which tests should (or should not) be used (i.e., audiogram, video or electronystagmogram, electrocochleography, MRI, etc.). The panel will end in discussing treatment options for Meniere's.
Credits
CME:1.0, MOC:1.0