Acute otitis media with transient sensorineural hearing loss. A case study.
A patient had acute otitis media with transient sensorineural hearing loss. Early symptoms included otalgia, progressive sensorineural hearing loss, and tinnitus with inflammation of the tympanic membrane. During the second week a conductive component emerged resulting in a 60-dB mixed loss in the 2- to 4-kHz region. The conductive component lasted 15 days while the sensorineural hearing loss recovered more slowly, with complete recovery at 6 months. Audiologic measures included conventional and extended high-frequency audiometry, 226-Hz and multifrequency tympanometry, binaural speech recognition, auditory brain-stem response, and psychoacoustic tuning curves.
Otitis Media Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
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D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D000208:Acute Disease; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000175:diagnosis; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013997:Time Factors