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.