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 + M^a (N = 14)	MD − M^b (N = 62)	P value [95% CI]
Age (yr)	36.6 ± 15.5	50.8 ± 11.6	0.005^s [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%)	0.01^s [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.