Meniere Disease, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Conditions
Brief summary
Patients with unilateral Meniere Disease often a distortion that causes difficulties to provide hearing aids to these patients. Those patients have two main problems: disorders in noise comprehension due to interaural threshold difference and increase in the distortion during dizziness crisis. Due to these problems, some people cannot be fitting with hearing aids because the compression needed is too high or the discomfort in noise is not bearable for patients. Our aim is to evaluate and to propose a way to adjust hearing aids to restore binaural hearing with comfort.
Interventions
DEVICEHearing aids fitting
Fitting hearing aids and evaluating the results at 6 months
Sponsors
University Hospital, Grenoble
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
cohort followed up
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Age over 18 y.o * Meniere disease as define by the Barany Society * Unilateral deafness with a threshold over 50dB * Normal ear with a threshold above 30dB * Interaural threshold difference of at least 30dB * Patient who has already an hearing aids and satisfied with it
Exclusion criteria
* Absence of consent of the patient or not able to give it * Patient with hearing aids well fitted
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of the comprehension in noise | 6 months | Evaluation with the FrMatrix test of the noise comprehension at 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Correlation between the ear recruitment and the settings of the hearing aids | 6 months | Correlation between the fowler test and the MPO modifications |
Contacts
Primary ContactAshley BAGUANT, MD
Backup ContactJean Baptiste LEMASSON
Outcome results
None listed