Participant demographics
No. | Age (yr) | Sex, Ethnicity | Side | Years since Onset | Prior Therapy | Symptoms | SRT/SDSa | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Right | Left | |||||||
1 | 62 | Female | Left | 6 | HCTZ | ∼2 Vertigo episodes/year | 20 dB | 90 dB |
96% at 60 dB | 4% at 100 dB | |||||||
2 | 45 | Male | Right | 3 | HCTZ, oral steroids | Waxing/waning roaring tinnitus, occasional vertigo | 15 dB | 5 dB |
96% at 75 dB | 100% at 45 dB | |||||||
3 | 55 | Male | Right | 1 | HCTZ | Tinnitus ×1 year, | 15 dB | 20 dB |
episodic vertigo ×2 mo | 96% at 55 dB | 96% at 80 dB | ||||||
4 | 63 | Female | Right | >10 | Bilateral IT steroid injection, oral steroid, HCTZ | 8 Vertigo attacks within 2 mo | 65 dB | 25 dB |
56% at 80 dB | 96% at 50 dB | |||||||
5 | 53 | Female | Left | >10 | Endolymphatic shunt, IT gentamicin ×9, IT steroids, gent/dex impregnated Gelfoamb sponge in round window niche | Tinnitus and pressure | 10 dB | 30 dB |
96% at 45 dB | 92% at 65 dB | |||||||
6 | 35 | Female | Right | 3 | HCTZ | Episodic vertigo within prior 2 weeks | 65 dB | 10 dB |
44% at 80 dB | 96% at 50 dB |
Note:—HCTZ indicates hydrochlorothiazide; SRT, speech reception threshold; SDS, speech discrimination score (%) at supra-SRT level (decibel); gent/dex, gentamicin/dexamethasone.
↵a Normal = Less than 25, mild = 26–40, moderate = 41–55, moderate/severe = 56–70, severe = 71–90, profound hearing loss >90.
↵b Phadia, Uppsala, Sweden.