Introduction  Several authors have demonstrated the relationship between sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD). Immune-mediated SNHL can rarely present as unilateral sudden SNHL and manifests itself in the contralateral ear only after years. It presents clinical relevance for being one of the few SNHL that may be reversible given that early and appropri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of HLA class II alleles with the susceptibility to sudden sensorineural hearing loss and with the results of corticosteroid treatment in the Korean population. DESIGN HLA-DRB1, -DQA1, -DQB1, and -DPB1 genotyping by the sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes method in 41 patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss and in 206 healthy control subjec...

An 11-year-old child with sudden post-traumatic sensorineural hearing loss regained his hearing functions after sneezing. This case report is a first in medical literature in describing recovery from hearing loss by sneezing. The therapeutic implications of this rare case deserve further investigation.

introduction: children learn to communicate by hearing sounds. if there is hearing loss, the cognitive and speaking abilities and language learning will deteriorate. early detection and intervention are important factors in the successful treatment of hearing loss in children. hearing loss (hl) is divided into two main groups: conductive hearing loss (chl) and sensorineural hearing loss (snhl),...

Dear Sir, There is considerable evidence suggesting a relation ship between autoimmune diseases and hearing impairment. As a specific entity, autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss (ASHL) has been reported to occur in association with autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We wanted to draw attention to this relationship by a case with RA presented sudden hearing loss. Our case w...

The author explains the clinical presentation, pathophysiology, diagnostic work-up, and management of sudden deafness. "Sudden" deafness is defined as sensorineural hearing loss of 30 decibels or more in at least 3 contiguous frequencies occurring over less than 3 days. The pathophysiology of sudden deafness is poorly understood. Various theories have been proposed, including those attributing ...

Background. Even if various pathophysiological events have been proposed as explanations, the putative cause of sudden hearing loss remains unclear. Objectives. To investigate and to reveal associations (if any) between the main iron-related gene variants and idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Study Design. Case-control study. Materials and Methods. A total of 200 sudden sensorineura...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the significance of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratios, which have recently been used in adults for the prognosis of idiopathic sudden hearing loss (ISHL), in the prognosis of idiopathic sudden hearing loss in a pediatric population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 13 males and 8 females younger than19 years with idiopathic sudden hearing...

By failing to ascertain the type and degree of hearing loss of a large cohort of professional men in their article titled ‘‘A Prospective Study of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Incident Hearing Loss in Men,’’ Shargorodsky et al. confound the relation of new-onset hearing loss with cardiovascular disease risk factors. Treating hearing loss as a single yes/no entity fails to include important i...