Sudden Deafness in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Eleven patients of sudden deafness with diabetes mellitus were presented. Clinical course of hearing impairement and the relationship between degree and prognosis of hearing impairement and condition of diabetes mellitus were studied. The Clinical courses of sudden deafnesses were almost the same in those with or without diabetes mellitus, but in the patients with diabets mellitus hearing was highly impaired, and in 3 cases hearing loss became worse after the initial examination and reached the maximum within a few days. The correlation of degree of diabetes mellitus and clinical course of hearing loss was not clear. Steroids was useful for the treatment of hearing loss under control of blood sugar level, and the prognosis was not bad.