Abstract
Hearing impairment commonly involves dysfunction of the inner ear or auditory nerve, a condition known as sensorineural Hearing loss (SNHL). A longitudinal observational study of 38 stroke patients was conducted at a tertiary care hospital for a period of 6 months to know the proportion of sensorineural hearing loss in stroke patients and also the progression of hearing loss during the recovery period of stroke. Clinical & audiological evaluation was done for all patients and they underwent pure tone audiometry at serial intervals of 1st, 2nd and 3rd month from the date of diagnosis of stroke. The proportion of sensorineural hearing loss in stroke patients was found to be 60%. On comparison of serial pure tone audiometry readings, it was observed that hearing loss improved signicantly during the recovery period of stroke. This study concluded that high proportion of sensorineural hearing loss in stroke patients indicates the importance of screening for hearing loss to improve the rehabilitation as well as quality of life post stroke.
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