Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Association of hearing impairment with tinnitus aureum

Dr. Vinish Kumar Agarwal

Abstract :

Tinnitus is sound perceived by patients in their ears when no external source of the sound exists. Subjective tinnitus is generally linked with high frequency he� loss, as a result of noise exposure or presbycusis. Aim of present study was to study association of degree and type of he� loss with tinnitus. Total 100 patients with complain of tinnituswere included in the study. All patients were subjected to clinical and audiological tests including pure tone audiometry for he�. Length of tinnitus was more than one year in 55% patients. Left ear tinnitus was more common than right ear or both ears tinnitus. Subjective he� loss was present in 90% patients were on pure tone audiometry only 64% ears with tinnitus had mild to moderate he� loss. Out of these 60% ears had sensorineural he� loss. Present study concluded that there is definite association of tinnitus with he� impairment, more so with sensorineural he� loss that to conductive he� loss.

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

Cite This Article:

Dr. Vinish Kumar Agarwal, Association of hearing impairment with tinnitus aureum, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018

Number of Downloads : 1013

References :