The Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Effects on Old Patients with Sudden Sensorinerural Hearing Loss / 听力学及言语疾病杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study clinical characteristics and treatment effects on old patients with sudden sen-sorinerural hearing loss .Methods To compare clinical characteristics and effects of 357 cases of unilateral SSHL from Sep ,2013 to Mar ,2015 in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University .The patients were divided into 2 groupsthe old group(66 cases)≥60 years ,and the control group(291 cases)0 .05) ,but there were less patients with the type in low frequencies (1 .51% ) and more with the type in high frequencies (22 .73% ) and the type in total deafness (50 .0% ) than those of in the control group(14 .43% ,15 .44% ,39 .52% ) .The old group had more patients with systemic diseases (60 .61% ) and the hearing impairment of the other ear (57 .58% ,P0 .05) .The old group's complete recovery rate was 10 .61% ,which was significantly lower than that in the control (P<0 .05) .Conclusion The old group has more patients with systemic diseases and the hearing impairment of the other ear .Their hearing impairment more easily occurs in the type in high frequencies and the type in total deafness . But the complete recovery rate is low ,the doctors and patients should have a reasonable expectation .