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The significance of extended high-frequency audiometry in tinnitus patients with normal hearing as evaluated via conventional pure tone audiometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2023

Xiaoyan Ma Open the ORCID record for Xiaoyan Ma [Opens in a new window] ,
Weidong Shen ,
Shiming Yang  and
Fangyuan Wang
Xiaoyan Ma
Affiliation:
First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Senior Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Sixth Medical Center of People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases, Beijing, China State Key Lab of Hearing Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China Beijing Key Lab of Hearing Impairment Prevention and Treatment, Beijing, China
Weidong Shen
Affiliation:
Senior Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Sixth Medical Center of People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases, Beijing, China State Key Lab of Hearing Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
Shiming Yang
Affiliation:
Senior Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Sixth Medical Center of People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases, Beijing, China State Key Lab of Hearing Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
Fangyuan Wang*
Affiliation:
Senior Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Sixth Medical Center of People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases, Beijing, China State Key Lab of Hearing Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China
*
Corresponding author: Fangyuan Wang; Email: fyw0530@126.com
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Abstract

Objective

This study was designed to determine whether extended high-frequency audiometry was capable of better differentiating between participants with normal hearing who did or did not have subjective tinnitus.

Methods

A total of 96 study participants were enrolled: 36 patients with unilateral tinnitus, 28 patients with bilateral tinnitus and 32 volunteers as controls. All 96 participants exhibited normal audiometry findings and hearing thresholds. Extended high-frequency audiometry was used to evaluate these patients.

Results

There were differences between the extended high-frequency hearing thresholds of affected and unaffected ears in those with unilateral tinnitus, and in the 20–29-year-old bilateral tinnitus group, at 11.2, 12.5 and 14 kHz. Unilateral tinnitus subgroups had higher extended high-frequency hearing thresholds than those in control subjects, at all extended high frequencies.

Conclusion

Extended high-frequency audiometry can offer additional information regarding the hearing status of patients with tinnitus who exhibit normal pure tone thresholds when analysed via conventional hearing thresholds.

Keywords

Tinnitusaudiometrypure-toneextended high frequency
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 138 , Issue 4 , April 2024 , pp. 381 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of J.L.O. (1984) LIMITED

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