Table 5. Responsiveness to treatment, support of the response and comparison between the initial and final audiometric characteristics of 16 affected ears.

Case	Affected Side	Response to steroids	Time after starting medication (days)	Sustained response or later worsens (months)	Degree of initial loss	Degree of final loss	SRI-initial monosyllable (%)	SRI-final monosyllable (%)
1	R	Y	24	9 (subsequent worsening)	moderate	severe	92	75
2*	L	N	not occurred		deep	deep	0	0
2*	R	N	not occurred		deep	deep	0	12
3	L	Y	15	20 (tracking ended)	severe	moderate	0	56
4	L	N	not occurred		deep	deep	0	0
5*	R	N	not occurred		severe	deep	75	0
5*	L	N	not occurred		moderate	deep	45	0
6	R	Y	60	7 (worsening afterwards)	deep	severe	0	60
7	R	Y	5	2 (tracking ended)	severe	moderate	0	76
8	R	N	not occurred		light	light	96	96
9	R	Y	20	9 (tracking ended)	deep	moderate	0	0
10	R	Y	15	2 (tracking ended)	severe	no loss	0	100
11*	R	N	not occurred		deep	deep	0	0
11*	L	Y	12	16 (tracking ended)	moderate	moderate	92	95
12	L	N	not occurred		deep	deep	0	0
13	R	N	not occurred		light	light	92	100

Abbreviations: L, Left; N, No; R, Right; SRI, speech recognition index; Y, Yes.

* bilateral cases.