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Predictors of hearing recovery in patients with severe sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, April 2017
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Title
Predictors of hearing recovery in patients with severe sudden sensorineural hearing loss
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Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40463-017-0207-1
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Daniel Weiss, Armin Julius Böcker, Mario Koopmann, Eleftherios Savvas, Matthias Borowski, Claudia Rudack

Abstract

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is a disease, which severely affects the patient's social and relational life. The underlying pathomechanisms have not been finally clarified yet and outcome is not predictable. We conducted a retrospective study in order to identify parameters that influence hearing recovery. The data base contains results of basic otoneurological tests and clinical parameters of 198 patients with idiopathic SSHL of at least 60 dB in at least four frequencies, diagnosed and treated at the University Hospital of Münster, Germany, between 1999 and 2015. Hearing recovery was measured by pure tone audiometry. Multivariate linear and logistic regression analyses indicate that the chance as well as the magnitude of hearing recovery is higher for patients with normal caloric testing than for patients with pathological caloric testing. However, for the subgroup of patients who attained a hearing recovery, the caloric testing result was not found to influence the magnitude. Instead, the magnitude was noticeably lower for patients within this subgroup who had a previous hearing loss. Furthermore, we found indications that the magnitude is higher for men than for women and that receiving a high-dose steroid therapy is associated with a higher chance and magnitude of a hearing recovery. We conclude that SSHL associated with disorders of the vestibular system or previous hearing loss represent special sub-entities of SSHL that may be caused by unique pathophysiological mechanisms and are associated with worse outcome. Furthermore, our data support the importance of elevated dosage of steroids in SSHL therapy.

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Unknown 57 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 7 12%
Student > Master 6 11%
Other 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Researcher 5 9%
Other 11 19%
Unknown 16 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 51%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 19 33%
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