Patient: a 60-year-old adult with sudden sensory neural hearing loss

This patient suffered a sudden hearing loss.  She complained of ‘buzzing’ sound in the ears and had a serious rhinitis. Hearing test showed that her right ear had a severe hearing loss. She couldn’t hear on the phone and thus communicate well. This problem should be taken care of as early as possible so we can expect […]

Patient: a 10-year-old boy with hearing loss

This patient has hearing loss. In this case, both rhinitis and hearing loss should be treated together, so better result can be expected from the treatment than adults. This is the result of pure-tone audiometry after a single treatment.   Pure-tone audiometry is a test that a patient hears a minimum audible sound. A smaller […]