[Pharmacotherapy of acute and chronic hearing loss].
The aetiology of acute hearing loss is mostly idiopathic like sudden sensorineural hearing loss and rarely infectious or vascular. Several studies and meta-analyses of pharmacotherapy are reviewed: In chronic tinnitus there is no indication for pharmacotherapy; sometimes a possible psychosomatic comorbidity has to be treated with psychopharmaceutical agents. Despite a low level of evidence treatment with steroids and initially plasma expanding infusions is recommended for acute tinnitus if there is no spontaneous remission. Intratympanic steroid therapy can be used as an alternative if there is severe hearing loss together with tinnitus.
Hesse
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Tinnitus-Klinik, Krankenhaus Bad Arolsen, Große Allee 50, 34454 Bad Arolsen. ghesse@tinnitus-klinik.net
Laubert
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D013256:Steroids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000188:drug therapy*
D013256:Steroids
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