The efficiency of intratympanic dexamethasone injectionas a sequential treatment after initial systemic steroid therapy for sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jong Bin Lee Seong Jun Choi Keehyun Park Hun Yi Park Oak-Sung Choo Yun-Hoon Choung
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The effect of intratympanic steroid injection is controversial as salvage or initial treatment option for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) and almost unknown if it is consecutively to use after initial systemic steroids. This study aimed to analyze the efficiency of intratympanic dexamethasone injection (ITDI) as a sequential treatment in the patients who failed initial systemic steroid treatments for SSNHL. Forty-six patients with SSNHL who did not respond to initial systemic steroids were prospectively included in the study. The patients were randomly classified into two groups; the ITDI group (21 patients) did not take four sequential ITDI within 2 weeks after systemic steroids, and the control group (25 patients) took any more medications. Hearing improvement was defined as a 10 dB or more decrease in the pure tone average (PTA) of the four-frequencies (0.5, 1, 2, and 3 kHz). Hearing improvement was observed in 10 (47.6%) of 21 ITDI patients and in 4 (16.0%) of 25 control patients (P = 0.027). An improvement of the mean PTA was 11.4 dB in the ITDI group and 1.7 dB in the control group (P = 0.004). The ITDI group showed significant hearing improvement at low frequency (500 Hz) than the control group. The patients with 70 or more dB in PTA before ITDI showed significant hearing improvement than the other patients with better PTAs (P = 0.038). The sequential ITDI, which is performed immediately after initial systemic steroid therapy, may be a simple, effective second- line treatment of choice for the patients who show poor response to initial treatments for SSNHL.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol (2011) 268:833–839, Received: 10 August 2010 / Accepted: 23 December 2010 / Published online: 8 January 2011 Springer-Verlag 2011
