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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Otol Neurotol. 2021 Aug 1;42(7):1001–1007. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003111

Table 3.

Summary of patients with clinically significant improvements in WRS, SRT, PTA, and hearing thresholds among long-term sudden sensorineural hearing loss patients.

Patients with ≥15% WRS improvement* 13 (68%)
Patients with ≥10 SRT improvement* 8 (40%)
Patients with ≥10 PTA improvement 3 (14%)
Patients with ≥10 dB improvement in at least one audiometric frequency 8 (38%)
Patients with ≥10 dB improvement in at least two audiometric frequencies 6 (29%)
Patients with ≥10 dB improvement in at least three audiometric frequencies 3 (14%)
Patients with self-perceived hearing improvement 12 (57%)

WRS: word recognition score; SRT: speech recognition threshold; PTA: pure tone average.

*

WRS and SRT were not available for analysis in 2 and 1 patients, respectively.

Self-perceived hearing improvement as reported by patient during post-treatment visit.