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The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study
Background Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a medical emergency; its etiology is unknown in most cases, The treatment, in turn, is empiric and usually consists of various pharmacological agents, mainly steroids. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is used routinely as salvage therapy for ref...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10819 |
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author | Almutairi, Nasser Alnofal, Ebraheem Algouhi, Amani Bamajboor, Afnan S Alzaher, Nabeel |
author_facet | Almutairi, Nasser Alnofal, Ebraheem Algouhi, Amani Bamajboor, Afnan S Alzaher, Nabeel |
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description | Background Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a medical emergency; its etiology is unknown in most cases, The treatment, in turn, is empiric and usually consists of various pharmacological agents, mainly steroids. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is used routinely as salvage therapy for refractory SSNHL. While several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of HBO therapy as salvage treatment for refractory SSNHL, its results have varied among studies, and its efficacy is still unclear. Aim We aimed to stratify the effect of HBO therapy as salvage treatment after the failure of steroid therapy for SSNHL. Method This is a retrospective case series that involved eight SSNHL patients in the past three years at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Patients' records were reviewed and statistical analysis was performed. Results Eight patients were included in this case series; six of them were males, and the mean age of all patients was 46.88 ±20.9 years. One patient had herpes zoster as the cause of SSNHL and seven patients' disease was of unknown etiology. The mean period for the onset of disease was 4.12 ±2.17 days. One patient was managed with intravenous dexamethasone and the other patients were managed with oral steroids, and all patients were then treated by HBO therapy. Of the patients, two showed significant improvement but the others did not. The cause of SSNHL, age of patients, HBO start and cessation, comorbidities, and disease onset did not affect the improvement in disease in patients (p: ˃0.05). Conclusion Moderate-to-severe cases of SSNHL can be improved by HBO treatment along with oral steroids, while this therapy was ineffective in severe and profound cases. No factors could be found to predict improvement in patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-76453042020-11-09 The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study Almutairi, Nasser Alnofal, Ebraheem Algouhi, Amani Bamajboor, Afnan S Alzaher, Nabeel Cureus Otolaryngology Background Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a medical emergency; its etiology is unknown in most cases, The treatment, in turn, is empiric and usually consists of various pharmacological agents, mainly steroids. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy is used routinely as salvage therapy for refractory SSNHL. While several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of HBO therapy as salvage treatment for refractory SSNHL, its results have varied among studies, and its efficacy is still unclear. Aim We aimed to stratify the effect of HBO therapy as salvage treatment after the failure of steroid therapy for SSNHL. Method This is a retrospective case series that involved eight SSNHL patients in the past three years at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Patients' records were reviewed and statistical analysis was performed. Results Eight patients were included in this case series; six of them were males, and the mean age of all patients was 46.88 ±20.9 years. One patient had herpes zoster as the cause of SSNHL and seven patients' disease was of unknown etiology. The mean period for the onset of disease was 4.12 ±2.17 days. One patient was managed with intravenous dexamethasone and the other patients were managed with oral steroids, and all patients were then treated by HBO therapy. Of the patients, two showed significant improvement but the others did not. The cause of SSNHL, age of patients, HBO start and cessation, comorbidities, and disease onset did not affect the improvement in disease in patients (p: ˃0.05). Conclusion Moderate-to-severe cases of SSNHL can be improved by HBO treatment along with oral steroids, while this therapy was ineffective in severe and profound cases. No factors could be found to predict improvement in patients. Cureus 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7645304/ /pubmed/33173627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10819 Text en Copyright © 2020, Almutairi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Otolaryngology Almutairi, Nasser Alnofal, Ebraheem Algouhi, Amani Bamajboor, Afnan S Alzaher, Nabeel The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title | The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title_full | The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title_fullStr | The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title_short | The Effectiveness of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Salvage Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Retrospective Study |
title_sort | effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as salvage treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a retrospective study |
topic | Otolaryngology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645304/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33173627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10819 |
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