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Sensorineural hearing loss is relatively well established in the squamosal chronic otitis media. However, its association with mucosal COM is still debated. The present study aimed at evaluating the prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss in unilateral mucosal COM. The study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, and 60 patients with unilateral mucosal chronic otitis media were recruited. Pure tone thresholds were ascertained for air and bone conduction in an acoustically treated room and matched against certain patient and disease characteristics. In this study, the combined prevalence of SNHL/Mixed Hearing loss in mucosal COM was found to be 8.3%. A statistically significant association between SNHL/Mixed HL was seen in the 40–50-year age group (p-0.004). Prevalence with a disease duration of more than 10 years was 33% (p-0.019). All the patients who presented with SNHL/Mixed HL had an actively discharging ear. 80% of the patients who presented with SNHL/Mixed HL had large perforations. SNHL/Mixed HL prevalence of 28.6% was found in smokers, compared to 5.7% in non-smokers (p-0.039). The risk of develo** SNHL/Mixed HL increased with increasing patients' age, disease duration, and size of the perforation and smokers.
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SKS and VM formulated the concept and design of the study. SKS and RS performed the data acquisition, analysis and literature review. JCP make relevant inferences based on the available data and formulated the discussion and recommendations. All authors have contributed to the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript prior to the submission.
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Soni, S., Malhotra, V., Sharma, R. et al. Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Unilateral Mucosal Type of Chronic Otitis Media. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 75, 2149–2154 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-023-03759-5
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