1991 Volume 1991 Issue Supplement51 Pages 50-56
Idiopathic sudden deafness is a cochlea type hearing loss of unknown origin. The prognosis is good in a considerable number of patients and response to the treatments good. Since 1987 we have been applying high dose steroids therapy (Stennert's method) for cases of sudden deafness.
The effects of high dose steroid therapy and the conventional steroid therapy were compared. The subje c ts were 84 cases of sudden deafness, which have been treated during the last 3 years. The overall improvement rate was 42.5% (23/54) for the patients assigned to high dose therapy and 30% (9/30) for the patients assigned to the conventional steroids therapy. Thus, patients given high dose steroid therapy showed a significantly higher recovery rate.
