[Therapy of sudden deafness and isolated unilateral vestibular loss]

The evaluation of therapeutic success in sudden hearing loss (90 publications), and in sudden unilateral isolated vestibular loss (9 publications) showed unvarying results, obtained by the most various forms of treatment, which were within the range of the spontaneous remission rate established by us. The efficacy of the forms of treatment applied so far is doubted. The early treatment will remain as in the past, since therapeutic methods more successful in the future will be effective only in those cases in which diseased sensory cells were not degenerating. At the present stage of therapeutic possibilities the therapeutic advantage to be expected for all measures to be taken should be considered by rule and line as for therapeutic complications and detriments. Therapeutic nihilism must be rejected same as any adherence to a rigid conception of therapy, an individual critical approach seems to be necessary.