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Letter to Editor concerning the “Therapeutic strategies in the treatment of Meniere’s disease: the Italian Experience”

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A Letter to the Editor to this article was published on 26 March 2020

The Original Article was published on 11 April 2019

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In this letter, we discuss possible alternatives and future perspectives in the therapy of Meniere’s disease. Special attention should be paid to the role of dietary restrictions for glucose in patients with Meniere’s disease, as there is a strong evidence about the presence of insulin receptors in the saccule, the main structure affected by pathological changes due to endolymphatic hydrops; to the possible use of endogenous antisecretory factor administered in specially processed cereals; and to the effects of low-dose intratympanic gentamicin, especially in patients with intractable Meniere’s disease.

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  1. Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Alfonso Scarpa, Pietro De Luca & Ettore Cassandro

  2. Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University Rome, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Ralli

  3. Center for Hearing and Deafness, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14214, USA

    Massimo Ralli

  4. AOU San Giovanni E Ruggi D’Aragona, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Luisa Savignano

  5. ENT Unit, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

    Federico Maria Gioacchini

  6. Surgical Sciences Department, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

    Claudia Cassandro

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Scarpa, A., Ralli, M., De Luca, P. et al. Letter to Editor concerning the “Therapeutic strategies in the treatment of Meniere’s disease: the Italian Experience”. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 277, 1847–1848 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-019-05774-1

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