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Clinical characteristics of subjective idiopathic tinnitus and preliminarily analyses for the effect of tinnitus multielement integration sound therapy

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Abstract

Objective

To study the psychoacoustic and audiological characteristics of patients with chronic subjective tinnitus and provide basis for the personalized diagnosis and treatment of tinnitus through a single tinnitus multielement integration sound therapy (T-MIST) and analysis of efficacy preliminarily.

Methods

145 patients with tinnitus were assessed by systematic medical history collection, professional examination of otolaryngology, audiology examination, full precision test (FPT), residual inhibition test (RIT), tinnitus handicap inventory (THI) and visual analog scale (VAS) annoyance. The correlation among factors was performed.

Results

The frequency of tinnitus was correlated with the frequency of maximum hearing loss (P < 0.05). The loudness of tinnitus was correlated with the loudness of maximum hearing loss (P < 0.05). In this study, T-MIST was used to treat tinnitus. After treatment, tinnitus alleviated VAS annoyance (P < 0.05). The results of RIT were correlated with the effect of T-MIST (P < 0.05).

Conclusion

There was a correlation between tinnitus and hearing loss. The RIT may indicate the effectiveness of acoustic therapy in patients. The FPT can find the hidden hearing loss without display on routine pure tone audiometry, so as to provide a clinical reference for the detection of early hearing loss in tinnitus patients.

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Data availability

The data used to support the findings of this study are available on request to the corresponding author: Jianming Yang, Email: Jmingyang88@163.com.

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We would like to thank all participants for their time during this study.

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The study was supported by funding from the Incubation Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 2019GMFY06].

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    Lin Yan, Weiqing Wang, Xiaoman Wu, Qi Fang & Jianming Yang

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Yan, L., Wang, W., Wu, X. et al. Clinical characteristics of subjective idiopathic tinnitus and preliminarily analyses for the effect of tinnitus multielement integration sound therapy. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 278, 4199–4207 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06501-x

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