Pharmacology Department, College of Medicine, Minia University, Minya, 61111, Egypt.
Inflammopharmacology. 2024 Apr;32(2):945-948. doi: 10.1007/s10787-023-01421-8. Epub 2024 Jan 31.
Chronic tinnitus is a common neurological disorder that affects millions of patients globally with no available successful pharmacotherapy. It can be extremely bothersome to some patients to the extent that it occasionally qualifies as a disability that can hinder them from leading a normal life. In this short communication, the author discusses how he suffered from idiopathic tinnitus and how he managed to adopt a combined pathophysiological and pharmacological approach to the reason for the first time in the medical literature that low-dose metformin might be safely and effectively repurposed to manage at least a subset of tinnitus patients while discussing the potential role of adenosine receptor agonists as potential future tinnitus therapeutics.
慢性耳鸣是一种常见的神经障碍,影响着全球数以百万计的患者,目前尚无有效的药物治疗方法。对于一些患者来说,耳鸣极其令人困扰,严重程度足以认定为残疾,使其无法过上正常的生活。在这篇简短的交流文章中,作者讨论了自己患有特发性耳鸣的经历,以及他如何首次在医学文献中采用综合病理生理学和药理学方法来治疗耳鸣。他还讨论了低剂量二甲双胍可能被安全有效地重新用于治疗至少一部分耳鸣患者的可能性,同时探讨了腺苷受体激动剂作为潜在未来耳鸣治疗药物的潜在作用。