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Paroma Mukherjee
Medical College Kolkata, IndiaTitle: Tinnitus in Covid Era – Association with SARS-CoV-2 and its outcome
Abstract
Introduction:
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the
SARS-CoV-2 virus. It mainly affects the respiratory and circulatory system. In
many, neuro-otological changes have also been noted – tinnitus being one of the
leading clinical manifestations which has skipped the limelight due to the
other deadly complications of the disease.
Methodology: An
institution based prospective comparative study was done in a tertiary hospital
in Kolkata, West Bengal, India during the period from July 2021 to December
2021. All patients aged above 18 years and below 65 years and with recent onset
of subjective tinnitus or tinnitus since March 2020 (COVID 1st wave) were
included in this study. Intensity of tinnitus was assessed at the end of 10
weeks after medical treatment with the help of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory
(THI). All had normal pure tone audiometry reports.
Results: 67
of the total 84 patients presenting with tinnitus were male and 17 were female.
33 out of the 64 (51.56%) patients without a positive COVID-19 RTPCR report
showed improvement in THI score post treatment at the end of 10 weeks. Among
those patients who developed tinnitus after contracting COVID-19 infection,
only 2 out of the 20 patients (that is 10%) had been vaccinated while 39 out of
the 64 patients without a H/O COVID-19 infection had been vaccinated against
COVID-19 disease.
Conclusion:
Our study concludes that chances of tinnitus is more in those who have not been
vaccinated against COVID-19 and post-medication improvement of tinnitus in
COVID-19 infected patients was much less than those without a history of
COVID-19 infection.
Biography
Paroma Mukherjee is presently working as a senior
resident in the department of otorhinolaryngology & head neck surgery at
NRS Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India. She did her MS in
otorhinolaryngology in 2023 from Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata under
West Bengal University of Health Sciences, India. She was awarded Gold medal in
otorhinolaryngology from Medical College Kolkata. She did her MBBS from KPC
Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata in 2019.
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