Older age, severe hearing loss, and vertigo are associated with poorer outcomes.Newsted, DanielBajin, Munir DemirYou, PengCanadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
Some people with severe hearing loss are candidates forcochlear implants, devices that replace the three small bones of the middle ear to enable the deaf and hard of hearing to hear sound. Modern technology has also made it a little easier to adapt to sudden hearing loss. Captioning on movies...
Severe hearing loss was associated with being AECA-positive in 8/11 cases. During follow-up, 25/32 patients improved their hearing and 17 of these patients were AECA-negative. The seven cases without hearing improvement were all AECA-positive. In patients with SSHL, immune-mediated vascular ...
Conclusions and significance: SSNHL during pregnancy often occurred in the second trimester or the last trimester with a severe hearing loss, the most audiogram configurations are flat and profound. Dextran-40 is a safe and beneficial therapy for SSNHL patients during pregnancy and adjuvant intra...
Around half of patients experiencing SSHL show some degree of spontaneous recovery without any treatment. For those with mild to severe hearing loss falling within the ‘steroid-effective zone’, there is a high likelihood of recovery (75-80%) when treated with ster...
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a rare, severe condition that affects approximately 5 to 20 of 100 000 people yearly in high-income countries.23 ,24 In 40% to 60% of cases, hearing will recover to normal levels in a few weeks of follow-up.25 ,26 It is possible that a delay ...
Hypothermia Facilitates Hearing Restoration in the Treatment of Severe Sudden DeafnessIdiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (sudden deafness) that occurs in 27,000 cases a year in Japan, mainly involves adults in 50 and 60 years in age and devastates their quality of life. Although it is ...
Moreover, the patients with vertigo, hypertension, DM and high TG suffered more often from severe hearing loss compared with the counterparts. This indicates that the cardiovascular and metabolic diseases (hypertension and hyperlipidemia) appeared to be closely associated with the occurrence and severity...
These patients, for whom a diagnosis of aplastic anemia had previously been confirmed, suddenly developed profound or complete hearing loss accompanied by tinnitus and severe vertigo. In addition to erythrocytopenia and thrombocytopenia, serial hematological examinations revealed a marked drop in the ...
Main symptoms Sudden onset Sensorineural hearing loss, usually severe Unknown etiology For reference Hearing loss (i.e. hearing loss of 30 dB or more over three consecutive frequencies) Sudden onset of hearing loss, but may progressively deteriorate over 72 h No history of recurrent episodes ...