introduction: sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ssnhl) is a frightening and frustrating symptom for the patient as well as the physician. prognosis is affected by multiple factors including duration of hearing loss, presence of associated vertigo and tinnitus, and co-morbidities such as hypertension and diabetes.   materials and methods: forty subjects presenting to our department with feature...

Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is a progressive disease resulting in a diffuse thickening of dura mater due to inflammation, tumor or autoimmune diseases, but most cases are idiopathic. It is seldom reported to be related to sensorineural hearing loss, but it can cause sensorineural hearing loss which can be potentially reversed through treatment. Here, we report the case of a 54-year-old woman w...

Introduction and Objectives: The idiopathic sensorineural cochlear hearing loss is one of the most frequent human sensory deficits and there is no specific drug therapy for it. The possible hearing recovery is related with the reestablishment of normal ionic homeostasis of the endolymph controlled by the mineralocorticoid as could be demonstrate experimentally. The purpose of this clinical tria...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate in patients with idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss whether pulse therapy with methylprednisolone leads to better recovery of hearing than traditional oral prednisolone therapy. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. METHODS Sixty-seven patients diagnosed with idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss were randomly divided into two groups based on therapy...

  Hearing loss is a major social problem and its rehabilitation is very important. Considering its prevalence in Iran, this study was performed to evaluate cases of hearing loss in referrals of Alzahra and Edgehie audiometry centers during the years 1995-1996. The descriptive strategy of this study was carried out on referrals of two audiometry clinics in Isfahan from October 1995 to 1996. Ou...

Idiopathic sudden hearing loss (ISHL) is defined as a sensorineural hearing loss of 30 dB or more at least three contiguous frequencies, which develops over a period of a few hours to 72 hours . Its incidence is 520/100.000 or 4,000 new cases per one year . Almost 98% of the patients are affected unilaterally . Although viral infections, vascular disorders, rupture of cochlear membranes, immuno...

Purpose of the Work. This article offers an overview of recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of four complex auditory disorders, all of which involve sensorineural hearing loss but have, in addition, other significant extra-auditory attributes unique to that condition. These conditions are noise-induced hearing loss, idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, otosc...

One hundred three cases of skull fractures in or around the temporal bone were reviewed for hearing loss. Of these, 100 patients had skull series, 66 had computed tomographic head scans, and 44 had polytomographic studies of the temporal bone. Hearing loss in head trauma can be grouped into four categories: conductive hearing loss, peripheral sensorineural hearing loss, central sensorineural he...