[The problem of tinnitus in patients with presbyacusis]

At the ENT Rehabilitation Centre as part of ENT Department University of Medical Sciences in Poznań over 900 patients with tinnitus were diagnosed and treated. Among them were 128 patients over 65 years of age, who in addition to tinnitus, reported hearing loss. After a battery of audiological tests, blood tests and additional specialist consultation, mixed hearing loss was found in 5 patients and senso-neural hearing loss (presbyacusis) was found in remaining 123 patients. For various reasons only 75 patients began treatment. Treatment of tinnitus was threefold: electrostimulation: 40 patients (53%); fitting of hearing aid: 29 patients (39%); TRT according to Jastreboff's model: 6 patients (8%). The authors described results of treatment patients with tinnitus and presbyacusis. The treatment model adopted at the ENT Rehabilitation Centre in Poznań has produced satisfactory therapeutic results.