Tinnitus characteristics in patients with hyperacusis and vertigo (including Ménière's disease) vs. hyperacusis alone

To compare clinical and psychoacoustic tinnitus characteristics in patients with the comorbidity of hyperacusis, hyperacusis and vertigo, and with Ménière's disease (MD). Three hundred and twenty-nine tinnitus patients underwent audiological and otoneurological evaluation. Records of 94 individ...

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Published in:Acta otorrinolaringológica española (English) 2023-01, Vol.74 (1), p.8-14
Main Authors: Zagólski, Olaf, Papież, Paweł, Kruk, Barbara, Kruk, Dawid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Audición
Craniocerebral Trauma
Enfermedad de Ménière
Female
Hearing
Hiperacusia
Humans
Hyperacusis
Male
Meniere Disease
Middle Aged
Ménière's disease
Tinnitus
Vertigo
Vértigo
Young Adult
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Summary:To compare clinical and psychoacoustic tinnitus characteristics in patients with the comorbidity of hyperacusis, hyperacusis and vertigo, and with Ménière's disease (MD). Three hundred and twenty-nine tinnitus patients underwent audiological and otoneurological evaluation. Records of 94 individuals younger than 65 years, 40 women and 54 men (mean age 41.8, range 24–64 years), who complained of tinnitus and hyperacusis, were analyzed. One hundred and thirty-one ears with tinnitus were identified: 67 in the group of patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis (group 1; 41 patients); 28 in the group fulfilling criteria of MD diagnosis (group 2; 28); and 36 in the group with tinnitus, hyperacusis and typical symptoms of vertigo (group 3; 25). Mean value of interaural difference in canal paresis in group 1 was 6.3%; in group 2: 23.7%; and in group 3: 25.9%; p
ISSN:2173-5735
2173-5735
DOI:10.1016/j.otoeng.2021.09.004