Abstract

Answer C. Ménière’s disease
Ménière’s disease causes a non-pulsatile tinnitus as well as a sensorineural hearing loss and vertigo (the common triad). Chronic otitis media, otosclerosis and a tympanic membrane perforation would cause a unilateral non-pulsatile tinnitus with possible conductive hearing loss or abnormal signs on otoscopy. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension would typically cause a pulsatile synchronous tinnitus.
InnovAiT article: Tinnitus. DOI: 10.1177/17557380211023078.
