Does Cognitive Dysfunction Correlate With Dizziness Severity in Meniére's Disease Patients

alexandrossfakianakis shared this article with you from Inoreader Does Cognitive Dysfunction Correlate With Dizziness Severity in Meniére's Disease Patients Via Otology & Neurotology - Published Ahead-of-Print Objective: Characterize the relationship between cognitive dysfunction and the dizziness severity in Meniére's disease (MD) patients. Study Design: Retrospective review. Setting: University-based tertiary medical center. Patients: Three hundred patients were evaluated for MD from 2015 to 2019. Excluding comorbid or alternative vestibular disorders, 29 patients with definite MD and available pre- and postintervention data were included for analysis. Interventions: A progressive protocol of salt restriction, diuretics, steroid and/or gentamycin injection, and endolymphatic sac decompression for those refractory to medical therapy. Main Outcome Measures: Quality of life measured with the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and cognitive function measured with the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ). Pre- and posttreatment DHI and DHI subscale scores and change in these scores were correlated with pre- and posttreatment CFQ scores and change in CFQ with therapy. Results: Analysis showed a number of limited associations between improvement in DHI and improvement in CFQ. Total DHI scores failed to correlate scores or variation in scores with change in CFQ (p = 0.091 and p = 0.085, respectively). Improvement in the CFQ false-triggering domain was significantly associated with improvement in the DHI physical subscale (r = 0.491, p = 0.007) and was nonsignificantly associated with improvement in total DHI and DHI emotional subscale scores (r = 0.422, p = 0.016 and r = 0.399, p = 0.032). Conclusions: The DHI correlates with several pre- and posttreatment measures of cognitive dysfunction (CFQ) in MD patients. However, change in DHI and CFQ with therapy correlate poorly. Overall, the commonly used DHI may fail to adequately assess cognitive dysfunction in MD patients possibly due to factors not directly implicated by measures of vestibular dysfunction, such as central nervous system or cognitive dysfunction; however, the specific physical and emotional subscales may offer helpful insight into cognitive dysfunction change/improvement with treatment. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Habib G. Rizk, M.D., 135 Rutledge Avenue, MSC 550, Charleston, SC 29425; E-mail: rizkh@musc.edu The authors disclose no conflicts of interest. Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's Website (). Copyright © 2020 by Otology & Neurotology, Inc. Image copyright © 2010 Wolters Kluwer Health/Anatomical Chart Company View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.