Talk:Ménière's disease

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Technical issues concerning ease of direct linking trump correctly accented page titles (most internet users don’t know how to make accents with their keyboards and the existence of redirects is less than obvious). The full and correct accenting should be used within the text of the article though and the accented page titles should be redirect to the unaccented ones. See the thread at the bottom of Talk:Naming conventions about Andre Breton vs André Breton for complete explanation. In this particular case there is also an issue with extent of use: Meniere's Disease getting 16,300 hits on Google and Ménière’s disease only getting 490 (see talk:naming conventions on why this is important when redirects already exist for the more "popular" form). --maveric149

cough... both your André Breton examples above are indentical. I've taken the liberty of changing one to a plain "e" Tarquin

Don't know what you mean -- André Breton is a redirect to Andre Breton. --maveric149

Oh, I see what you did, thanks. --maveric149

Contents 1 Eponym 2 Requested move 2.1 Survey 2.2 Discussion 3 Citation needed tag 4 Conjectural Diagnosis 5 Under: 'See Also' 6 Proposed external link 7 Why no reference to AAO HNS CHE 1995 ? 8 New userbox

[edit] Eponym

The eponym was reviewed in the Lancet[1] JFW | T@lk 23:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Ménière’s disease → Ménière's disease … Rationale: Remove directed single quotation mark and make it an undirected single quotation mark. --waffle iron ^talk 05:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation needed tag

Which definition or dx criteria state that "A diagnosis may be made in the absence of all four classic symptoms"? For example Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium, Committee on Hearing and Equilibrium guidelines for the diagnosis and evaluation of therapy in Meniere's disease, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 113:181-185 requires: "Either tinnitus or aural fullness (or both) must be present on the affected side to make the diagnosis for reporting purposes under these guidelines." <admittedly this is for reporting purposes> FWIW - AvB ÷ talk 09:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I corrected the part about Darwin being a Meniere's patient. He might have had an inner ear disease, but in the absence of hearing loss and aural fullness there is no basis for a diagnosis.

Layraud 09:24, 1 December 2006 (UTC)Layraud

[edit] Conjectural Diagnosis

The article on Vincent van Gogh has been expanded and a link to a separate article on Vincent van Gogh's medical condition is now included. I have therefore amended/linked Famous Sufferers in line with these changes. I have also edited/qualified the Milligan & Clare "See Also" to neutralise and accord with the foregoing. I think the Starry Night reference now looks frivolous. Any thoughts?

Ynysgrif 16:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Under: 'See Also'

As it is written down now, it would suggest that this long list of people would have Meniere's disease as a consequence of syphilis. This is obviously nonsense, or to say it more politely, where is the evidence that Syphilis causes Meniere's disease? Layraud 11:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Either I am ging to delete "probably caused by syphillis" or the whole phrase about these people. Problem is that I don't know what that book really says. Anyone? Layraud 09:39, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed external link

Please can someone explain the background to this unusual notice (I'm aware of the WP policy). Who has made the decision and why ? -

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Knowing nothing about the subject, but investigating for my elderly neighbour who's considering endolymphatic sac surgery I thought that the following was a good overview with a load of references for further investigation, from a good source. Is it worth adding ? -

Saeed, Shakeel R (31 January 1998). "Fortnightly review: Diagnosis and treatment of Ménière’s disease". BMJ 316 (7128): 368-372. London: BMJ Publishing Group. 

It also contradicts the John Hopkins cited age range and male-female ratio in the article -

"Ménière’s disease predominantly affects white people, with a prevalence in the United Kingdom of 1 per 1000 of the population, both sexes being represented equally. The disorder may occur in children but has a peak onset between 20 and 50 years of age. The incidence of disease affecting both ears increases to over 40% with longer follow up."

Thanks -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 19:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why no reference to AAO HNS CHE 1995 ?

I know little of the subject but isn't this a pretty standard starting point ? I can't seem to locate it on the web so a link would be good. Thanks -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 19:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New userbox

Hi everyone. I created a userbox for those of us who have Meniere's.

{{User:RisingSunWiki/Userboxes/Meniere's Disease}}

You can copy and paste the above to put it on your user page. If you would like to help make it better you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RisingSunWiki/Userboxes/Meniere%27s_Disease and edit it. It's a work in progress. Thanks. --RisingSunWiki 23:20, 31 May 2008 (UTC)