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Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is diagnosed when there's a sudden drop in hearing of at least 30 decibels across three consecutive frequencies, emerging within up to 72 hours. In clinical settings, steroids are the predominant treatment for SSNHL. However, the outcomes for patients undergoing steroid therapy for SSNHL can differ substantially. Moreover, a systematic review of randomized clinical trials has found no conclusive evidence pinpointing an effective treatment for SSNHL. Hydroxychloroquine, a derivative of chloroquine, is a medication that has gained attention for its potential role in modulating the immune response. We aim to see if hydroxychloroquine could augment hearing recovery in SSNHL under steroid treatment and to evaluate the safety of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of SSNHL patients. We plan to enroll 80 SSNHL patients who received oral steroid therapy and randomize them into an experimental group (hydroxychloroquine with prednisolone, 40 patients) and a control group (prednisolone, 40 patients). The primary endpoint will be the change in pure tone audiogram (PTA) in the affected ear from screening until 3 months. The secondary endpoints will be the change in word recognition score and the change in bilateral tinnitus severity after treatment. Any side effects will be recorded to ensure the safety of this clinical trial.
Recognition of speech sounds is accomplished through the use of adjacent sounds in time, in what is termed acoustic context. The frequency and temporal properties of these contextual sounds play a large role in recognition of human speech. Historically, most research on both speech perception and sound perception in general examine sounds out-of-context, or presented individually. Further, these studies have been conducted independently of each other with little connection across labs, across sounds, etc. These approaches slow the progress in understanding how listeners with hearing difficulties use context to recognize speech and how their hearing aids and/or cochlear implants might be modified to improve their perception. This research has three main goals. First, the investigators predict that performance in speech sound recognition experiments will be related when testing the same speech frequencies or the same moments in time, but that performance will not be related in further comparisons across speech frequencies or at different moments in time. Second, the investigators predict that adding background noise will make this contextual speech perception more difficult, and that these difficulties will be more severe for listeners with hearing loss. Third, the investigators predict that cochlear implant users will also use surrounding sounds in their speech recognition, but with key differences than healthy-hearing listeners owing to the sound processing done by their implants. In tandem with these goals, the investigators will use computer models to simulate how neurons respond to speech sounds individually and when surrounded by other sounds.
The majority of children's everyday activities need balance, which is the complex ability to maintain, obtain, or restore the condition of balance of the body when a child is standing still, getting ready to move, or getting ready to stop moving. Integration of several sensory, motor, and biomechanical inputs is necessary for balance. Nonetheless, alterations in certain sensory systems (such as visual, somatosensory, and vestibular) may result in imbalances inside the body. Previous research has demonstrated that children and adolescents with hearing impairments are more likely to experience balance and/or motor deficits as a result of vestibular system damage, which increases their risk of developing motor and balance issues. Additionally, research has demonstrated a link between hearing loss and a higher risk of all-cause death, maybe through physical activity-related factors including balance and mobility. Combining maze control training with traditional physical therapy's proprioceptive exercises tests your balance and improves your stability overall.
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the Mi2000 Totally Implantable Cochlear Implant in a population of candidates for a cochlear implant. The main question it aims to answer is, whether the device is able to improve speech perception compared to the pre-operative score. Participants will undergo cochlear implantation and fitting, and will be asked to perform the following tests pre- and post-operatively: - Word test in quiet - Sentence test in noise - Audiograms - Health Utilities Index 2 and 3 (HUI2&3), a generic quality-of-life questionnaire - Nijmengen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire (NCIQ), a disease specific quality-of life questionnaire - Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ12), a disease specific questionnaire - Hearing Implant Sound Quality Index (HISQUI19), a sound quality questionnaire
This is a prospective multicenter multinational randomized control trial. The duration of the study for the individual patient will be approximately 1 year (pre-operative assessments, 1 week, 3 months and 12 months follow-up assessments). Participants will be randomized to one of two surgical approaches: eRW or CO, with a 1:1 allocation in a parallel design.
The KHENERFIN study is investigating whether the study medicine, sonlicromanol, is able to improve symptoms of fatigue and the impact of fatigue on daily life, and whether sonlicromanol is able improve physical abilities of people living with mitochondrial disease, such as balance control and lower limb skeletal muscle strength. For this study, the effects of sonlicromanol are compared with those from a placebo (study medication that looks like the actual study medicine but contains no active medicine). The study medicine (or placebo) is a powder that is dissolved in water and must be taken twice daily during the treatment period of 52 weeks. Additionally, the study evaluates the efficacy of sonlicromanol on selected secondary and exploratory outcome measures, as well as the safety and tolerability of sonlicromanol after 52 weeks of treatment with sonlicromanol.
This study is a prospective, randomized pilot study. To verify an efficacy/safety of the mixed drug injectable delivery vehicle for treating intractable hearing loss. Hearing test, endoscopy of tympanic membrane and CT scans will be conducted after intratympanic treatment for evaluation.
DTI and auditory tractography can be incorporated into the diagnostic toolkit for patients who are scheduled to undergo cochlear implantation and whose standard assessments have been unable to determine the functional integrity of the auditory pathway. These techniques aid in decision-making processes regarding potential outcomes, determining the optimal side for implantation, providing counseling regarding the possibility of limited benefits from surgery, and considering alternative forms of rehabilitation. The investigators including patients with varying degrees of hearing loss, as well as patients with normal radiological findings who are scheduled for cochlear implantation. The ultimate goal is to create a comprehensive map across the entire hearing spectrum and validate the findings of this study..
Interscalene brachial plexus block (ISBPB) is used frequently in shoulder, clavicle and upper arm surgeries to obtain analgesia in the postoperative period. Our primary aim in this study is to evaluate if interscalene block anesthesia has an effect on hearing levels of patients undergoing orthopedic shoulder surgeries.