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Treatment-refractory autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss: Response to infliximab
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Treatment-refractory autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss: Response to infliximab

Yi-Chun Liu, Rene Rubin and Robert T. Sataloff
Ear, nose, & throat journal, v 90(1), pp 23-28
01 Jan 2011
PMID: 21229506
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https://doi.org/10.1177/014556131109000107View
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Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Otorhinolaryngology Science & Technology
We conducted a retrospective study to assess the effects of infliximab, a chimeric monoclonal antibody, on hearing in patients with autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss who had previously not responded to steroid therapy and/or treatment with other immunosuppressive drugs such as methotrexate and cyclophosphamide. We reviewed the records of 8 such patients. Our objective measures of outcome were pure-tone averages at 500, 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 Hz and speech discrimination scores. At the completion of treatment, no patient exhibited a positive response to infliximab therapy by objective measurements, and only 1 patient (12.5%) reported subjective improvement.

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