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#379 Hearing Loss, Tinnitus, and Meniere's Disease

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Idiopathic Sensor a Neural Hearing Loss

If an audiogram confirms a significant sensory neural hearing loss we all treat them with steroids either by mouth or by injection directly into the ear some docs do both. The standard treatment in almost everywhere is steroids for a couple of weeks Steve I'll tell you a secret about internists. Nothing's gonna bring it back and every day that passes without treatment the chance of of hearing recovery goes down So it really is an emergency to get them evaluated And no matter what they need an MRI and steroids and got it it's it.

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