Trans-round Window Membrane Intracochlear Steroid

Summary

Safety and efficacy of intracochlear injection of glucocorticoid through the round window membrane in patients with profound or complete sudden sensorineural hearing loss

Timeline

Start

2026-04-20

Primary completion

2028-04-20

Completion

2028-05-01

Publications

• Background Chandrasekhar SS, Tsai Do BS, Schwartz SR, Bontempo LJ, Faucett EA, Finestone SA, Hollingsworth DB, Kelley DM, Kmucha ST, Moonis G, Poling GL, Roberts JK, Stachler RJ, Zeitler DM, Corrigan MD, Nnacheta LC, Satterfield L, Monjur TM. Clinical Practice Guideline: Sudden Hearing Loss (Update) Executive Summary. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Aug;161(2):195-210. doi: 10.1177/0194599819859883.
• Background Fishman JM, Cullen L. Investigating sudden hearing loss in adults. BMJ. 2018 Nov 12;363:k4347. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4347. No abstract available.
• Background SCHUKNECHT HF. Ablation therapy in the management of Meniere's disease. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl. 1957;132:1-42. No abstract available.
• Background McCabe BF. Autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 1979 Sep-Oct;88(5 Pt 1):585-9. doi: 10.1177/000348947908800501.
• Background Wilson WR, Byl FM, Laird N. The efficacy of steroids in the treatment of idiopathic sudden hearing loss. A double-blind clinical study. Arch Otolaryngol. 1980 Dec;106(12):772-6. doi: 10.1001/archotol.1980.00790360050013.
• Background Silverstein H, Choo D, Rosenberg SI, Kuhn J, Seidman M, Stein I. Intratympanic steroid treatment of inner ear disease and tinnitus (preliminary report). Ear Nose Throat J. 1996 Aug;75(8):468-71, 474, 476 passim.
• Background Li W, Hartsock JJ, Dai C, Salt AN. Permeation Enhancers for Intratympanically-applied Drugs Studied Using Fluorescent Dexamethasone as a Marker. Otol Neurotol. 2018 Jun;39(5):639-647. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000001786.
• Background Rauch SD, Halpin CF, Antonelli PJ, Babu S, Carey JP, Gantz BJ, Goebel JA, Hammerschlag PE, Harris JP, Isaacson B, Lee D, Linstrom CJ, Parnes LS, Shi H, Slattery WH, Telian SA, Vrabec JT, Reda DJ. Oral vs intratympanic corticosteroid therapy for idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2011 May 25;305(20):2071-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.679.
• Background Bird PA, Begg EJ, Zhang M, Keast AT, Murray DP, Balkany TJ. Intratympanic versus intravenous delivery of methylprednisolone to cochlear perilymph. Otol Neurotol. 2007 Dec;28(8):1124-30. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31815aee21.
• Background Matsui H, Lopez IA, Ishiyama G, Ishiyama A. Immunohistochemical localization of glucocorticoid receptors in the human cochlea. Brain Res. 2023 May 1;1806:148301. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2023.148301. Epub 2023 Mar 1.
• Background Plontke SK, Biegner T, Kammerer B, Delabar U, Salt AN. Dexamethasone concentration gradients along scala tympani after application to the round window membrane. Otol Neurotol. 2008 Apr;29(3):401-6. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318161aaae.
• Background Choi JW, Lee CK, Kim SB, Lee DY, Ko SC, Park KH, Choi SJ. Potential benefits of salvage intratympanic dexamethasone injection in profound idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2020 Aug;277(8):2219-2227. doi: 10.1007/s00405-020-05967-z. Epub 2020 Apr 15.
• Background Lv J, Wang H, Cheng X, Chen Y, Wang D, Zhang L, Cao Q, Tang H, Hu S, Gao K, Xun M, Wang J, Wang Z, Zhu B, Cui C, Gao Z, Guo L, Yu S, Jiang L, Yin Y, Zhang J, Chen B, Wang W, Chai R, Chen ZY, Li H, Shu Y. AAV1-hOTOF gene therapy for autosomal recessive deafness 9: a single-arm trial. Lancet. 2024 May 25;403(10441):2317-2325. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02874-X. Epub 2024 Jan 24.

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