Outcomes of Endolymphatic Sac Surgery for Meniere’s Disease with and without Comorbid Migraine
Table 1
All patient demographics stratified by migraine as a comorbidity.
Characteristic
MD + Ma (N = 14)
MD − Mb (N = 62)
P value [95% CI]
Age (yr)
36.6 ± 15.5
50.8 ± 11.6
0.005s [4.8, 23.6]
Sex
Male
3 (21.43%)
31 (50.00%)
0.07
Female
11 (78.57%)
31 (50.00%)
Psychiatric comorbidity
9 (64.29%)
16 (25.80%)
0.01s [1.3, 22.2]
Pure tone average (dB)
49.5 ± 18.6
49.4 ± 15.1
0.99 [−11.4, 11.3]
Word recognition score (%)
69.8 ± 37.2
65.7 ± 32.7
0.70 [−27.0, 18.6]
Preoperative FLS
4.0 ± 1.0
4.3 ± 0.8
0.50 [−0.6, 1.2]
Prior treatment
Diuretics
11 (78.57%)
49 (79.03%)
0.73
Diuretics + steroids
3 (21.43%)
9 (14.52%)
Other
0 (0%)
4 (6.45%)
Meniere’s stage
(N = 56)c
0.35
1: ≤25 dB
3 (21.43%)
4 (7.14%)
2: 26–40 dB
2 (14.29%)
13 (23.21%)
3: 41–70 dB
8 (57.14%)
36 (64.29%)
4: >70 dB
1 (7.14%)
3 (5.36%)
Diagnosis to surgery (months)
47.43 ± 39.41
52.00 ± 65.61
0.74
aMeniere’s disease with migraine. bMeniere’s disease without migraine. cPopulation of 56 due to six missing values. Two-sample t-test. Fisher’s exact test. SSignificant at 5% level of significance.