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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 110 | Page : 81--86 |
Acute onset of tinnitus in patients with sudden deafness
Ljiljana Cvorovic1, Nenad Arsovic1, Nemanja Radivojevic2, Ivan Soldatovic3, Stefan C.A Hegemann4
1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade; Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Center of, Serbia
2 Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Center of, Serbia
3 Institute for Biomedical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia
4 Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, Switzerland
Correspondence Address:
Ljiljana Cvorovic
Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia, Pasterova 2, 11000 Belgrade
Serbia
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/nah.NAH_42_20
Objective: We made hypotheses that tinnitus will appear more likely in patients with sudden deafness with superior hearing in unaffected ear or with more severe acute hearing loss. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed. Five hundred forty-one patients were identified with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) from January 1995 to August 2006. The exclusion criteria for this study were as follows: bilateral sudden hearing loss and Meniere disease, previous tinnitus or bilateral tinnitus at initial evaluation, and onset of hearing loss less than 7 days. The cohort enrolled 454 patients. The enrolled patients were classified into two groups: patient with acute onset tinnitus in the affected ear and patients without tinnitus at initial visit. Main outcome measures were patient age, the presence or absence of vertigo and tinnitus, audiometric patterns, the severity of hearing loss, and hearing in the unaffected ear. Results: Better contralateral hearing (n = 220 versus n = 72, P < 0.001) and younger age (48 versus 55 years, P < 0.001) were independently associated with the acute onset of tinnitus in patients with ISSHL. The degree of asymmetry between the ears did not differ significantly between patients with and without tinnitus. The sex, presence of vertigo, shape of audiogram, and severity of hearing loss were not correlated with tinnitus occurrence. Conclusions: Tinnitus triggered by ISSHL was more frequent in patients with better contralateral hearing and of a younger age, irrespective of the severity of hearing loss on the affected side or the asymmetry between the ears.
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