Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Association of hearing impairment with tinnitus aureum

Dr. Vinish Kumar Agarwal

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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 heå loss, as a result of noise exposure or presbycusis. Aim of present study was to study association of degree and type of heå 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 heå. 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 heå loss was present in 90% patients were on pure tone audiometry only 64% ears with tinnitus had mild to moderate heå loss. Out of these 60% ears had sensorineural heå loss. Present study concluded that there is definite association of tinnitus with heå impairment, more so with sensorineural heå loss that to conductive heå loss.

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

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