Baradaranfar Mohammad Hossein, Doosti Afsaneh
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Acta Med Iran. 2010 Nov-Dec;48(6):371-3.
RA (rheumatoid arthritis) is a chronic multisystem disease with a variety of systemic manifestations. One of these manifestations, is hearing disorder, so study of the relation between RA and hearing disorders is seem important. This was a case-control study which has done from December 2004 to August 2006. This study compared 50 patients with RA, with age, sex and job-matched as control. Audiometric tests in different frequencies show that hearing threshold in high frequencies specially in 8000 Hz had a significant difference between two groups, also acoustic reflexes were absent in case groups and had significant difference between two groups too. The evaluation of sensory neural hearing loss showed that this hearing loss is sensory not neural. Based on this study, frequent evaluation of audiometric tests is recommended for controlling hearing disorders by therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures in RA patients.
类风湿性关节炎（RA）是一种具有多种全身表现的慢性多系统疾病。其中一种表现是听力障碍，因此研究RA与听力障碍之间的关系似乎很重要。这是一项于2004年12月至2006年8月进行的病例对照研究。该研究将50例RA患者与年龄、性别和工作相匹配的对照组进行比较。不同频率的听力测试表明，两组之间高频尤其是8000Hz的听力阈值存在显著差异，病例组也没有声反射，两组之间也存在显著差异。感觉神经性听力损失的评估表明，这种听力损失是感觉性而非神经性的。基于这项研究，建议对RA患者进行听力测试的频繁评估，以便通过治疗和康复程序控制听力障碍。
