1Professor, Department of ENT, Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal
2Assistant Professor, Department of ENT, Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal
3Senior Resident, Department of ENT, Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal
4Junior Resident, Department of ENT, Santhiram Medical College, Nandyal
Online published on 4 July, 2016.
The objective of this study was to assess the sensor neural hearing loss and vestibular symptoms in patients with arterial hypertension.
The study comprised of audio vestibular evaluation of 50 proven hypertensive patients and results were compared with age and sex matched 50 controls.
Hearing threshold levels were raised in all frequencies along with impaired vestibular functions in hypertensive patients and correlated with degree of hypertensive retinopathy changes.
Discussion: Vascular pathology caused by hypertension affects the vessels in the inner ear to impair its function in similar way as of hypertensive retinopathy.
Patients with hypertension are having more silent cochlear dysfunction associated with vascular disease caused by hypertension, without significant vestibular dysfunction.
Arterial hypertension, audio vestibular functions, hypertensive retinopathy
