Transtympanic gentamicin and fibrin tissue adhesive for treatment of unilateral Menière's disease: effects on vestibular function.

Objective: To determine the effects of transtympanic injections, with a mixture composed of gentamicin and fibrin tissue adhesive (FTA), on vestibular function of patients with intractable unilateral Menière's disease.

Study Design: This was an open, prospective study.

Setting And Patients: The study was performed at 2 tertiary referral centers.

Use of mammalian inner ear antigens for the diagnosis of autoimmune sudden loss of vestibular function.

It has been postulated that bilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) may be the result of an ongoing autoimmune process against the inner ear and a pattern of progressive bilateral SNHL linked to an autoimmune inner ear disorder has been reported. Various attempts have been made to develop an assay to confirm the diagnosis of autoimmune inner ear disease. In this study we used a Western blot assay to determine the presence of IgG antibodies directed against a PO antigen (30 kDa) of the guinea pig in the sera of patients affected by sudden loss of vestibular function (SLVF).