Study of the Effects of Anakinra in Corticosteroid-resistant Subjects With Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if anakinra (an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) can improve hearing thresholds in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss that did not respond to oral steroid therapy. The patients to be enrolled will have recently completed a course of oral steroids and demonstrated no change in their audiometric thresholds following corticosteroid therapy. The investigators will be measuring hearing thresholds (Pure tone average and word recognition scores) before and after anakinra and correlating these findings with circulating IL-1 levels in the patient's blood.

Timeline

Start

2013-10

Primary completion

2015-07

Completion

2015-07

Publications

• Results Vambutas A, Lesser M, Mullooly V, Pathak S, Zahtz G, Rosen L, Goldofsky E. Early efficacy trial of anakinra in corticosteroid-resistant autoimmune inner ear disease. J Clin Invest. 2014 Sep;124(9):4115-22. doi: 10.1172/JCI76503. Epub 2014 Aug 18.

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