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Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Speech Intelligibility Deficits Following Threshold Recovery.
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- Study on the relationship between coagulation function, homocysteine, serum oxidative stress and sudden deafness and its clinical implications.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Asymmetric hearing loss and the risk of stroke: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study.BMC neurology · 2026Article
- Modeling the impact of cochlear nerve degeneration on speech recognition performance.PloS one · 2025Article
- Assessment of Peripheral and Central Auditory Processing after Treatment for Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2024Article
- Evidence of cochlear neural degeneration in normal-hearing subjects with tinnitus.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A data-driven approach to identify a rapid screener for auditory processing disorder testing referrals in adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Predicting neural deficits in sensorineural hearing loss from word recognition scores.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The impairment of speech perception in noise following pure tone hearing recovery in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Envelope following responses predict speech-in-noise performance in normal-hearing listeners.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Toward Optimal Care for Children With Congenital Unilateral Aural Atresia.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Efficacy evaluation and clinical value exploration of secondary inpatient treatment for total deafness-type SSNHL: a single-center prospective study.Frontiers in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThis retrospective study tests the hypothesis that patients who have recovered from idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) show deficits in word recognition tasks that cannot be entirely explained by a loss in audibility.
designWe reviewed the audiologic profile of 166 patients presenting with a unilateral SSNHL. Hearing loss severity, degree of threshold recovery, residual hearing loss, and word recognition performance were considered as outcome variables. Age, route of treatment, delay between SSNHL onset and treatment, and audiogram configuration were considered as predictor variables.
resultsSeverity, residual hearing loss, and recovery were highly variable across patients. While age and onset-treatment delay could not account for the severity, residual hearing loss and recovery in thresholds, configuration of the SSNHL and overall inner ear status as measured by thresholds on the contralateral ear were predictive of threshold recovery. Speech recognition performance was significantly poorer than predicted by the speech intelligibility curve derived from the patient's audiogram.
conclusionsSSNHL is associated with (1) changes in thresholds that are consistent with ischemia and (2) speech intelligibility deficits that cannot be entirely explained by a change in hearing sensitivity.
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