[Treatment of tinnitus. What hope of recovery? What therapeutic method?].

Abstract

Global therapeutic efficacy was evaluated after treatment of 100 patients with tinnitus. Characteristics of the affection were studied and different therapies applied. After a mean follow up of 4 months, marked improvement was noted in symptomatology in 33% of cases, including 8% of patients indicating total disappearance of tinnitus or its marked reduction. Efficacy of most treatments, notably medication, is open to doubt, while electrophysiological means such as percutaneous and transtympanic electrical stimulation possess specific indications. The need for basic studies of the physiopathology of tinnitus, as well as for extensive multicentre clinical trials to assess the different therapeutic methods used, is stressed.

• Authors: M Gersdorff, T Robillard, S Van der Bemden
• Journal: Annales d'oto-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico faciale : bulletin de la Societe d'oto-laryngologie des hopitaux de Paris (Ann Otolaryngol Chir Cervicofac) Vol. 104 Issue 7 Pg. 545-8 ( 1987) ISSN: 0003-438X [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Le traitement des acouphènes. Quel espoir de guérison? Quel schéma thérapeutique?
• PMID: 3501260 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Aged
• Electric Stimulation Therapy
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prognosis
• Tinnitus (drug therapy, surgery, therapy)