XCIII On Hearing in Multiple Sclerosis

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Pure tone audiometric findings were analyzed on 70 patients hospitalized due to exacerbation of a disease process and medically diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis on admission, during hospitalization and at discharge. Speech reception testing for threshold and discrimination, tone decay and SEI tests were done for some of the same patients. No unusual characteristic audiometric pattern can be ascribed to patients with multiple sclerosis when taken as a group. Comparison was made with audiometric threshold levels reported by other investigators. Although patients with multiple sclerosis may demonstrate some reduced hearing levels, such reduction is independent of the disease process and generally appropriate to the patients'' age. Low frequency rising audiometric patterns appear for some unclear reason in some individual instances. These do not appear to be the rule. SISI and tone decay findings do not appear unique. If hearing abnormality is associated with multiple sclerosis, more subtle techniques than those used in this study must be found. This does not rule out transient auditory problems during some stage of the disease.

This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit: