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. 2018 Aug 19:2018:7276359.
doi: 10.1155/2018/7276359. eCollection 2018.

Hearing Performance in the Follicular-Luteal Phase of the Menstrual Cycle

Seyede Faranak Emami  1 , Nasrin Gohari  2   3 , Hossein Ramezani  2 , Mariam Borzouei  2
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Hearing Performance in the Follicular-Luteal Phase of the Menstrual Cycle

Seyede Faranak Emami et al. Int J Otolaryngol. .

Abstract

Introduction: Estrogen has a protective role on auditory function. It may have an excitatory action on auditory nerve fibers and can have a neuroprotective effect. Progesterone has a mainly inhibitory action on the central nervous system, which may balance the mainly excitatory action of estrogen.

Objective: To determine changes in hearing performance with pure tone audiometry (PTA), tympanometry, distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs), and auditory brainstem responses (ABR) as hormonal changes occur from follicular to luteal phase.

Materials and methods: Twenty healthy female volunteers (age 19 ± 30 years) with normal menstrual cycle and without any hearing problems are included in this case-control study. Hearing evaluation was performed on the 13th day of the menstrual cycle (follicular phase) and then on the 22nd day (luteal phase).

Results: All of the participants had normal results in follicular phase. In luteal phase, four cases showed abnormalities as follows: reduced hearing thresholds 250 Hz (mean= 15 dBHL), increased amplitudes of DPOAE (mean= 3 dBspl), decreased middle ear pressure (mean= -110 dapa), and delayed ABR interpeak latencies (mean of IPLs I-III= 0.4 and mean of IPLs III-V= 0.6 ms).

Conclusions: In some women, changing of ovarian hormones may induce fluctuating hearing and increased progesterone in luteal phase can lead to abnormal outcomes in auditory function. However, elevated estrogen modifies its consequences in follicular phase.

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Mean DPOAEs of twenty healthy female in follicular-luteal phase.
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Mean hearing thresholds 250 HZ of twenty healthy female in follicular-luteal phase.
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Mean middle ear pressure of twenty healthy female in follicular-luteal phase.
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