Meniere's Disease and Inner Ear Disorders. Update 2015

This book contains a collection of contributions that were delivered at the VII International Symposium on Ménière's disease and Inner Ear Disorders, held in Rome on October 17 to 20, 2015, and that were addressing many of the known, but also some of the unknown aspects of this inner ear disorder. Among them, a particular interest has been solicited by the genetic issue involving the inner ear in general and that will surely represent in the future one of the new pathogenetic and diagnostic lines to pursue for the study of the Ménière's population. A great impact is also foreseen by the routine application of specifically-designed imaging procedures that would enable to confirm the presence of endolymphatic hydrops as the real pathognomonic finding of the disease, and to follow-up the affected subjects during its clinical course, along with the role played by the different therapeutical approaches for it. The treatment of Ménière's disease seems also to have taken a straightforward direction towards the intratympanic delivery of drugs, where steroids appear to be promising molecules in this regard, without running particular risks for an additional inner ear damage, as it could be possible when ototoxic molecules are used