Menier

Meniere is an abbreviation of Ménière's disease, which is a non-inflammatory disease characterized by labyrinth of the inner ear membrane. Also translated as Meniere's disease. The main clinical manifestations of this disease are sudden vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, or nystagmus. There are obvious onset and intermittent periods of vertigo. The majority of patients are middle-aged people, mostly males and mental workers. 80-90% are unilateral. About 65% of patients have their first attack before the age of 50. In 1861, Dr. Meniere (translated into Chinese called Menier or Merrier) dissected the balance organs and found that the balance organs had abnormal pathological changes, increased pressure, circulatory disturbances, unable to maintain the liquid level, and revealed the origin of dizziness . To commemorate him, he has since linked this type of vertigo to Dr. Meniere's name, and since then it has been called Meniere's syndrome. Meniere's syndrome is an inner eardrum labyrinth disease that is characterized by paroxysmal vertigo with nausea and vomiting, and has clinical manifestations such as fluctuating deafness, tinnitus, and ear fullness. The cause is unknown. In 1861, French doctor P. Menier published 4 articles on dizziness in the magazine, which described the clinical symptoms in detail. Later scholars named Meniere's syndrome for those who repeatedly had the above symptoms. In 1938, Halpic and Keynes discovered that the pathology of this disease was hydroponic membrane loss. Later, some people have confirmed this pathological change, thereby confirming it as a disease. General clinicians are accustomed to collectively refer to Meniere's syndrome for all vertigo diseases for which no cause can be found, leading to conceptual disorders. At a conference on balance in 1972, it was determined that the diseases of dizziness, deafness, and tinnitus caused by membrane labyrinth were uniformly named for Meniere's disease. Many books and periodicals have also used membrane labyrinth for many years as a synonym for Meniere's disease. It has also been pointed out that congenital syphilis, virus, and bacterial infections can also cause membrane labyrinth, and therefore advocate the abolition of membrane labyrinth as a synonym for this disease, unless the primary membrane labyrinth is crowned. Inner ear labyrinth is filled with internal and external lymphatics to ensure the normal function of the inner ear. Membrane labyrinth may be related to circulation disorders of the inner lymph. There are two theories about the circulation of the endolymph: ① the theory of longitudinal flow. It was proposed in 1927 that endolymph was thought to be caused by vascular striae, flowed through the joint tube to the sac, and finally absorbed by the endolymph sac. This traditional doctrine is still accepted by most people. ② Radial flow theory. It was proposed in 1958 that endolymph was composed of outer lymph that penetrated the vestibular membrane. Vascular striae play a role of selective absorption, maintain ion exchange between internal and external lymph, and ensure high potassium levels in internal lymph.

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