[On the frequency of Meniere's disease occurrence]

The authors estimated the frequency of Ménière's disease occurrence among patients of Department of Otolaryngology, University School of Medicine in Lodz in years 1986-1995. The incidence of Ménière's disease was evaluated as 0.46% of all clinic patients and as 1.7% of cases which were treated for aural diseases. Diagnosis was made on the basis of clinical symptomatology, exact medical examination and audiologic tests. The function of vestibular organs was assessed with the help of caloric tests with ENG recordings. Ménière's disease incidence has been the subject of many epidemiological papers in literature but the exact values are different. Perhaps it can be attributed to a variety of criteria applied in defining Ménière's disease or to epidemiological differences.