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Article: Drug helps sudden hearing loss.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- September 26, 2000
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI)
Sudden hearing loss following a chest cold can be reversed by adding an antiviral drug to the standard steroid treatment, Egyptian physicians said Monday.
In a two-year study presented at a meeting of head and neck surgeons in Washington, Hesham Zagloul and Mohamed Ghonim of Mansoura University say adding the drug acyclovir reversed the deafness in 83 percent of cases. Mansoura University is in the city of Mansoura, about 60 miles north of the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
Sudden hearing loss, linked to a viral infection in the upper respiratory tract, strikes about 10,000 Americans every year, estimates physician George ...