Pharmacologic and surgical therapies for patients with Meniere's disease: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Nadera AhmadzaiWei ChengShaun KiltyLeila EsmaeilisarajiDianna WolfeJames BonaparteDavid SchrammElizabeth M FitzpatrickVincent LinBecky SkidmoreBrian HuttonPublished in: PloS one (2020)
To achieve both hearing preservation and vertigo control, the best treatment option among the pharmacologic interventions compared may be IT steroid plus high-dose betahistine, considering that IT gentamicin may have good performance to control vertigo but may be detrimental to hearing preservation with high cumulative dosage and short interval between injections. However, IT steroid plus high-dose betahistine has not been compared in head-to-head trials against other interventions except for IT steroid alone in one trial, thus future trials that compare it with other interventions will help establish comparative effectiveness with direct evidence.