The Influence of Covid-19 on the Audio-vestibular System
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 70
- Primary Endpoint
- sensoneural hearing level - PTA
Study Overview
Brief Summary
the study's porpuse is to examine whether Covid-19 causese a reduction in sensorineural hearing and vestibular function in recovered pateints - compared to healthy controls.
Both study groups will undergo audiometry, tympanometry, Video Head Impulse testing, Subjective Visual Vertigo testing and Video-Nystamography.
Previous audiometry results will also be aquired.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Diagnostic
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •ages 18-80 performed audiometry testing in the last two years
Exclusion Criteria
- •known inner ear dysfunction - Sudden sensorineural hearing loss; autoimmune disease (Cogan's syndrom, SLE, ect.), familial/genetic sensorineural hearing loss, excessive noise exposure.
- •knowm conductive hearing loss (Air-bone gap>10dB) prior ear surgery chronic tympanic membrane perforation.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
sensoneural hearing level - PTA
Time Frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
PTA at each frequency will be compared between new and baseline audiogram for each group. Afterwhich - the average PTA decreament would be compared betwenn both groups - contrl and recovered COVID-19 patients
Secondary Outcomes
- vestibular function(through study completion, an average of 1 year)
Investigators
Yoni Evgeni Gutkovich
M.D/Ph.D.
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
