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Abstract
Sensorineural hearing loss which develops suddenly over a period of hours or a few days. It varies in severity from mild to total deafness. Sudden deafness can be due to head trauma, vascular diseases, infections, or can appear without obvious cause or warning.
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- Hearing Loss, Sudden
- Deafness, Sudden
- Sudden Deafness
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2003 (1979)
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- Deafness (1966-1978)
- Deafness, Sudden (1979-2002)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sudden Hearing Loss. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003639. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003639
- Sudden Hearing Loss. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20820133