Evaluation of The Timing of The Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Prognostic Factors in Sudden Hearing Loss

The therapeutic approach in sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is far from a consensual protocol among ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctors. The present paper describes our experience with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) as salvage treatment for selected patients with the sudden sensorineural hearing loss. The HBOT method has shown an efficacy of 50% in our study, as salvage treatment in ISSNHL after initially corticoids therapy. Thus, we can assert without doubt that HBOT represents a viable option for those patients who want to continue the effort to regain hearing. Under the auspices of the national ENT society, through a collective effort, can be achieved a therapeutic consensus in the sensorineural hearing loss. In this consensual document, HBOT can be found both as initial and salvage therapy, alone or in the multimodal therapeutical variant. Further, the National Health Insurance House should introduce the reimbursement of HBOT sessions in the methodological norms, in order to offer this new therapeutic solution to all patients.

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Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss treated with adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen therapy

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology ◽

10.1007/s00405-017-4784-4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 275 (1) ◽

pp. 47-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Shaobing Xie ◽

Qingfen Qiang ◽

Lingyun Mei ◽

Chufeng He ◽

Yong Feng ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Multivariate Analysis ◽

Prognostic Factors ◽

Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽

Hyperbaric Oxygen ◽

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ◽

Oxygen Therapy ◽

Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽

Sensorineural Hearing

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Recovery from Repeated Sudden Hearing Loss in a Patient with Takayasu’s Arteritis Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: The First Report in the Literature

Case Reports in Otolaryngology ◽

10.1155/2017/3281984 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Massimo Ralli ◽

Antonio Greco ◽

Vincenzo Falasca ◽

Giancarlo Altissimi ◽

Mario Tombolini ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽

Hyperbaric Oxygen ◽

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ◽

Oxygen Therapy ◽

Takayasu’S Arteritis ◽

Sudden Hearing Loss ◽

Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽

Sensorineural Hearing ◽

Takayasu's Arteritis

Hearing loss has been rarely reported in Takayasu’s arteritis, may present as Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, and usually responds well to corticosteroid therapy. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is commonly used as a supplementary treatment to corticosteroids for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss. We present the case of a 36-year-old woman with Takayasu’s arteritis who had two episodes of sudden hearing loss involving one ear at a time with an 11-month delay between each episode. During the first episode, the patient was treated with high-dose intramuscular corticosteroids with a temporary improvement of auditory threshold that deteriorated 14 days after cessation of therapy. In the second episode, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy was associated with corticosteroids, with improvements in both ears, including the one that was unresponsive in the long term to previous pharmacologic therapy. In this case, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy could have acted synergically with corticosteroids playing a role in hearing restoration.

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