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. 2015 Jul-Aug;17(77):209-15.
doi: 10.4103/1463-1741.160691.

The effect of drill-generated noise in the contralateral healthy ear following mastoid surgery: The emphasis on hearing threshold recovery time

Mohammad Hossein Baradaranfar, Honeyeh Shahbazian  1 , Nasim Behniafard, Saeid Atighechi, Mohammad Hossein Dadgarnia, Abbas Mirvakili, Abolfazl Mollasadeghi, Amin Baradaranfar
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The effect of drill-generated noise in the contralateral healthy ear following mastoid surgery: The emphasis on hearing threshold recovery time

Mohammad Hossein Baradaranfar et al. Noise Health. 2015 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

In mastoid surgeries, contralateral ear noise exposure is a known, identified factor leading to high-frequency hearing loss due to the wide variety of surgical devices that may be used during the surgery. However, the hearing threshold recovery time after this trauma was uncertain. The present study aimed to assess this time. In this prospective survival analysis study, 28 consecutive patients with chronic otitis media who were undergoing tympanomastoidectomy were assessed. Standard pure-tone audiometry (PTA) and distortion-product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) were measured in all contralateral ears before and 6 h, 24 h, 48 h, 72 h, and 96 h after the surgery. Based on the PTA postoperative hearing loss, survival rates at frequencies of 3000 Hz, 4000 Hz, 6000 Hz, and 8000 Hz were 44.4%, 36.4%, 51.7%, and 47.4%, 24 h after surgery; 11.1%, 9.1%, 10.3%, and 13.2%, 48 h after surgery; and 0%, 0%, 3.4%, and 2.6%, 72 h after surgery, respectively. Based on the PTA and DPOAE, survival rates at all frequencies were 0%, 96 h after the surgery. According to the PTA, mean hearing recovery times were 61.98 ± 26.76 h (3000 Hz), 62.73 ± 26.50 h (4000 Hz), 67.08 ± 25.90 h (6000 Hz), 70.70 ± 24.13 h (8000 Hz), and with regard to DPOAE the recovery times were 58.58 ± 28.39 h (2000 Hz), 63.32 ± 28.83 h (4000 Hz), 65.22 ± 29.13 h (6000 Hz), and 75.14 ± 22.70 h (8000 Hz), respectively. To conclude, high-frequency hearing loss usually occurs following mastoid surgeries that is mainly temporary and reversible after 72 h.

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Hearing levels at 250 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing levels at 500 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing levels at 1000 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 500 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 1000 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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Hearing levels at 3000 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing levels at 4000 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing levels at 6000 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing levels at 8000 Hz according to different times after the surgery (PTA)
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 2000 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 4000 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 6000 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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Hearing level DPOAE amplitudes in 8000 Hz according to different times after the surgery
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