Pulse-synchronous tinnitus suggests a vascular etiology and is deemed rare by the otologic literature. During the period 1978-1985 we evaluated 20 patients with the sole or initial complaint of pulsatile tinnitus. Fourteen patients had objective pulsatile tinnitus, perceived by the patient and the examiner alike, and 6 had subjective pulsatile tinnitus, perceived by the patient only. Angiograph...

Tinnitus or subjective hearing loss, or both, were reported by 61 of 134 (45%) patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) taking regular salicylates and by 73 of 182 (40%) untreated healthy subjects. In the patients with RA mean salicylate levels were not higher in those with tinnitus than in those without tinnitus, but levels were significantly higher in those with subjective hearing loss than in...

Contents 1 Introduction to the thesis 7 2 Plasticity in tinnitus patients: a role for the efferent auditory system? 19 3 Asymmetry in primary auditory cortex activity in tinnitus patients 37 and controls 4 Contralateral suppression of otoacoustic emissions in tinnitus patients 55 5 Wavelet-analysis demonstrates no abnormality in contralateral 71 suppression of otoacoustic emissions in tinnitus ...

Tinnitushasbeen classified in severalways, suchas itspresumedsite of generation and whether it is audible to someone other than the patient (objective tinnitus) or the patient alone (subjective tinnitus). An objective tinnitus, heard by the examiner, may be of middle ear origin or a spontaneous otoacoustic emission arising from the sensorineural system. Therefore, the terms subjective and objec...

This study evaluated the interference of tinnitus on the quality of life for noise-exposed workers enrolled in a hearing conservation program. Noise measurements, a questionnaire, a Brazilian version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and pure-tone audiometry were conducted with 52 participants (mean age, 29 years) who suffered from tinnitus. THI results indicated that tinnitus had the g...

This study reports central auditory speech test performance of 25 consecutive patients with subjective idiopathic tinnitus of the severe disabling type. A preliminary study of 14 individuals who had subjective idiopathic tinnitus and complained of difficulty in hearing and understanding revealed a high incidence of abnormal central auditory speech test performance (71%), despite satisfactory pe...

Objective: To verify the effect of lasertherapy in a combination with administration of Ginkgo bilobae extract (EGb 761) in the treatment of patients with chronic tinnitus. Background data: Tinnitus is a symptom signifying the disturbances of a hearing system. The treatment is difficult due to the multiple aetiology and great psychological influence of tinnitus. Studies concerning EGb 761 or la...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to evaluate the relationship between tinnitus and the level of anxiety and depression experienced by subjective tinnitus patients, and to determine the effect of the level of anxiety and depression to the results of tinnitus treatment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 104 patients were included in this study. All the patients conducted Tinn...

Tinnitus is primarily an auditory symptom. Yet not only patients and clinicians, but also current pathophysiological models relate the onset and maintenance of tinnitus to stress. Here physiological and psychological stress reactivity was investigated in 19 patients with subjective chronic tinnitus and 19 comparable healthy controls. All participants underwent five consecutive measurements in o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the therapeutic benefit of gabapentin (Neurontin) for subjective idiopathic troublesome tinnitus. DESIGN An 8-week, double-blind, randomized clinical trial. SETTING Academic otolaryngology clinic in St Louis, Mo. SUBJECTS One hundred thirty-five subjects with severe idiopathic subjective tinnitus of 6 months' duration or longer. INTERVENTION Gabapentin, at a maintena...