What
is sudden sensorineural hearing loss?
What
is the research study?
What
are my treatment options?
What
if I have limited or no medical insurance?
How
can I enroll in this study?
if you are UNABLE to contact one of our study centers, AND you have SSNHL within 2 weeks of the symptoms, you can also contact us at:
hearingresearch@gmail.com
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Sudden Sensorineural
Hearing Loss (SSNHL) Multicenter Treatment Trial
ENTRY CRITERIA
1.
Adult men or women (18 years and older) with a history of
normal hearing in both ears prior to symptoms
2.
Sudden hearing loss in one ear (muffled
or absent hearing that occured within a 1 to 3 day
period)
3.
Symptoms of hearing loss must be within the past
1-14 days - patients that have had hearing loss
for longer than several weeks are not eligible.
3.
Audiogram - thresholds of 50 dB
PTA or worse on the affected ear. The other ear
should have normal to near-normal hearing.
4.
No more than 10 days of treatment with
oral steroids
- ideally, we need patients who have received no therapy
for this study.
We encourage referring physicians to not begin
any treatment on patients who are sent to one of the study
centers.
Any patients who do not fulfill our study criteria
will be started on appropriate therapy and returned to the
referring specialist.
By recruiting patients who have received no treatment
prior to enrollment in our study, we can ensure that we
collect the most accurate data about how patients respond
to each of the randomized treatment arms.
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