Intratympanic steroid injection treatment of sudden hearing loss with diabetes: a Meta-analysis / 中国耳鼻咽喉头颈外科

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacyand safety of intratympanic injection of steroids in the treatment of sudden hearing loss with diabetes.METHODS PubMed, Medline, CNKI, CBM, VIP, and Wanfang databases were searched by electronic retrieval to collect documents meeting the inclusion criteria and extract data.Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.3.RESULTS There were 9 articles included in the literature search,a total number of 587 ears, of which 294 ears accepted intratympanic injection of steroids as the experimental group. Another 293 ears was control group,of which 217 ears accepted systemic steroids and 76 ears accepted non-hormone therapy.Meta analysis results showed that the clinical effect of experimental group was more remarkable than that of the control group (Z=3.65, P<0.05;Z=3.70,P<0.05). The influence on blood sugar in experimental group was smaller than that of the control group (χ2=7.471,P<0.05). Other complications of intratympanic steroid injection were self-healing after tympanic membrane perforation, transient dizziness and so on.CONCLUSION There was a significant effect on patients with sudden hearing loss and diabetes through intratympanic steroid injection. It has little effect on blood glucose and slight complications, which is a priority in clinical practice.