Abstract

LEGAZA,, Elena María Sánchez; SUAREZ,, Herminia Revelles  and  SANCHEZ,, Alejandro Pozo. Lermoyez´s syndrome, a case report presentation. Salud(i)Ciencia [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.5, pp.244-247.  Epub Nov 05, 2021. ISSN 1667-8682.  http://dx.doi.org/www.dx.doi.org/10.21840/siic/164487.

Lermoyez´ syndrome is an unusual clinical variant of Ménière’s disease, because in both pathologies there is a peripheral vascular disorder, what it consists in the dilation of the labyrinthine membranes associated with an increase in the volume of the endolymph. Clinically, they have severe frequency fluctuations of hearing loss, tinnitus and vertigo attacks. Finally, it evolves to the deterioration of hearing in all frequencies.

Lermoyez´ síndrome, or labyrinthine angiospasm, has an unknown etiopathogeny, although several theories have been proposed, but none explains its nature, nor its clinical course, being one of them the allergy.

Their diagnosis is clinical, they present the typical triad (peripheral vertigo crisis with neurosensory hearing loss and tinnitus and/or otic fullness), but they characterised by the improvement in hearing just after a sudden vertigo attack. With the development of the disease, dizziness attacks and hearing recovery become more and more rare, and disappear. Treatment aims to relieve symptoms during crises and improve disease progression.

It is present the clinical case of Lermoyez syndrome, in a male patient with allergic pathology, who was diagnosed with Ménière's disease at the beginning. It is a rare syndrome described described in classical ENT (ear -nose -throat).

Keywords : syndrome; endolymphatic hydrops; Ménière´s disease; peripheral vertigo.

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