TY - JOUR
T1 - Current state of evidence for endolymphatic sac surgery in Menière's disease
T2 - a systematic review
AU - Devantier, Louise
AU - Schmidt, Jesper Hvass
AU - Djurhuus, Bjarki Ditlev
AU - Hougaard, Dan Dupont
AU - Händel, Mina Nicole
AU - Liviu-Adelin Guldfred, Frank
AU - Edemann-Callesen, Henriette
PY - 2019/11/2
Y1 - 2019/11/2
N2 -
Background: Endolymphatic sac surgery is an invasive procedure recommended to patients with Menière's disease.
Aims/Objectives: To provide an overview and quality assessment of the existing evidence and to provide an updated assessment of the utility of endolymphatic sac surgery in Menière's disease.
Material and Methods: We performed a systematic literature search for systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The AMSTAR tool was used to assess the quality of systematic reviews and the Cochrane risk of bias tool for RCTs. The overall certainty of effects for the individual outcomes was evaluated using the GRADE approach.
Results: One systematic review of high quality matched the inclusion criteria, and included three RCTs. An updated literature search from the last search date of the included review provided no further relevant RCTs. The identified RCTs individually reported a positive effect of both the placebo and active treatment groups following surgery, strongly indicative of a placebo effect. The overall certainty of the effect was very low.
Conclusions and significance: There is still a lack of high-quality research suggesting that endolymphatic sac surgery provides a significant amount of symptomatic relief for Menière's patients.
AB -
Background: Endolymphatic sac surgery is an invasive procedure recommended to patients with Menière's disease.
Aims/Objectives: To provide an overview and quality assessment of the existing evidence and to provide an updated assessment of the utility of endolymphatic sac surgery in Menière's disease.
Material and Methods: We performed a systematic literature search for systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The AMSTAR tool was used to assess the quality of systematic reviews and the Cochrane risk of bias tool for RCTs. The overall certainty of effects for the individual outcomes was evaluated using the GRADE approach.
Results: One systematic review of high quality matched the inclusion criteria, and included three RCTs. An updated literature search from the last search date of the included review provided no further relevant RCTs. The identified RCTs individually reported a positive effect of both the placebo and active treatment groups following surgery, strongly indicative of a placebo effect. The overall certainty of the effect was very low.
Conclusions and significance: There is still a lack of high-quality research suggesting that endolymphatic sac surgery provides a significant amount of symptomatic relief for Menière's patients.
KW - Endolymphatic Sac/surgery
KW - Humans
KW - Meniere Disease/surgery
KW - Meniere's disease
KW - endolymphatic surgery
KW - vertigo
KW - endolymphatic shunt
U2 - 10.1080/00016489.2019.1657240
DO - 10.1080/00016489.2019.1657240
M3 - Review
C2 - 31498014
SN - 0001-6489
VL - 139
SP - 953
EP - 958
JO - Acta Oto-Laryngologica
JF - Acta Oto-Laryngologica
IS - 11
ER -