title: [Sudden deafness. 12 year of experience].
abstract: We report 48 cases of sudden deafness admitted in our Hospital between 1990 and 2001. A series of variables were analyzed like affected ear, evolution time, personal precedents, clinic, audiometry, complementary tests, treatments followed (according protocol), clinical evolve and average stay. Four cases annually, more or less, have been registered, with little predominance of men (28) than women (13), being the happy medium 48 years (between 22 and 74 years). 43 percent of cases came to Urgency ward before 24 hours since the beginning of symptoms and 31 percent came three or more days later. 45 patients (93.7%) with an audiometric loss of 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz and 2,000 Hz over 55 dB, with 11 cases of total deafness. In our Department two several treatment protocol have been employed, which results are considered in the paper. Generally 52 percent showed little improvement and only 7 cases gain more than 40 dB, with 2 complete recovery and 23 without improvement. We think that this pathology must be i.v. precociously treated with the selected protocols although without any warranty of hearing improvement, as reflected in our paper.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de ORL, Hospital Infanta Cristina-Badajoz.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pino Rivero
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mogollón Cano-Cortés
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Montero García
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Carrasco Claver
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blasco Huelva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D005260:Female; D003639:Hearing Loss, Sudden / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome