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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
NO AFTER-EFFECTS OF COVID-19 INFECTION IN TERMS OF STANDARD AUDIOLOGICAL TESTS
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Department of Audiology, JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, India
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article;
Submission date: 2022-11-14
Final revision date: 2023-11-01
Acceptance date: 2023-11-02
Online publication date: 2023-12-22
Publication date: 2023-12-22
Corresponding author
Kumari Apeksha
Department of Audiology, JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, MG Road, 570004, Mysuru, India
Department of Audiology, JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, MG Road, 570004, Mysuru, India
J Hear Sci 2023;13(4):19-26
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), considered to be caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is an acute respiratory disease which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Previously published reports have shown contradictory findings on the involvement of the auditory system in individuals infected with COVID-19. The present study aims to assess auditory system functioning in individuals post-COVID-19 infection and compare the results with individuals without COVID-19 infection.
Material and methods:
Participants in this study were 30 individuals who had experienced mild COVID-19 infection and 30 individuals who never had COVID-19. Participants were aged between 18 and 40 years. Testing was done 1 to 6 months after infection, and involved conventional and extended high-frequency audiometry, speech perception in quiet and at different signal-to-noise ratios (SPIN), transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) in quiet and in the presence of contralateral noise, and auditory brainstem response (ABR) in the ipsilateral and contralateral mode.
Results:
None of the tests – pure-tone thresholds, speech perception in quiet and in noise, TEOAE with and without contralateral noise, and ABR – showed any significant difference between individuals who never had COVID-19 infection and those who had recovered from the infection. Both afferent and efferent auditory pathways showed normal findings in individuals post-COVID-19 infection.
Conclusions:
Individuals who have been infected with mild COVID-19 did not show any significant deficit in any of the audiological tests, suggesting that the disease does not cause any permanent harm to the auditory system after the infection has subsided.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), considered to be caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), is an acute respiratory disease which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Previously published reports have shown contradictory findings on the involvement of the auditory system in individuals infected with COVID-19. The present study aims to assess auditory system functioning in individuals post-COVID-19 infection and compare the results with individuals without COVID-19 infection.
Material and methods:
Participants in this study were 30 individuals who had experienced mild COVID-19 infection and 30 individuals who never had COVID-19. Participants were aged between 18 and 40 years. Testing was done 1 to 6 months after infection, and involved conventional and extended high-frequency audiometry, speech perception in quiet and at different signal-to-noise ratios (SPIN), transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) in quiet and in the presence of contralateral noise, and auditory brainstem response (ABR) in the ipsilateral and contralateral mode.
Results:
None of the tests – pure-tone thresholds, speech perception in quiet and in noise, TEOAE with and without contralateral noise, and ABR – showed any significant difference between individuals who never had COVID-19 infection and those who had recovered from the infection. Both afferent and efferent auditory pathways showed normal findings in individuals post-COVID-19 infection.
Conclusions:
Individuals who have been infected with mild COVID-19 did not show any significant deficit in any of the audiological tests, suggesting that the disease does not cause any permanent harm to the auditory system after the infection has subsided.
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