Can Intratympanic Steroid Be Initial Therapy for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss?

Methods: Patients who were diagnosed as idiopathic SSNHL and received no therapy were included in the study. Patients were divided into control and study groups. Patients in the study group received concurrent intratympanic steroid treatment with systemic steroid therapy. Patients in the control group received standard systemic steroid treatment alone. The duration of time before the treatment was evaluated for all the patients. Pure tone audiometry (PTA) was performed for all the patients in the pre-treatment and post-treatment period in order to record the responses for both in terms of the individual frequencies and the pure tone average.