The Price of Immune Responses and the Role of Vitamin D in the Inner Ear.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In this review the authors discuss evidence from the literature concerning vitamin D and temporal bone diseases (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo [BPPV], Menière's disease [MD], vestibular neuritis, idiopathic facial paralysis, idiopathic acute hearing loss). Common features shared by Menière's disease, glaucoma, and the possible influence by vitamin D are briefly discussed.

Data sources, study selection

Publications from 1970 until recent times have been reviewed according to a keyword search (see above) in PubMed.

Conclusions

MD, BPPV, vestibular neuritis, idiopathic facial paralysis, idiopathic acute hearing loss may all have several etiological factors, but a common feature of the current theories is that an initial viral infection and a subsequent a

SUBMITTER: Buki B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6578582 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature