The Audiometric Studies on Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Treated with Streptomycin

Chang, Kwang Sub; Choi, Heung Jai; Kim, Kiho; Kim, Hyun Soo; Yoon, Sang Ha

doi:1960.0.8.149

Tuberc Respir Dis > Issue 8; 1960 > Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1960;8:149-0.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1960.8.1.149 Published online December 1, 1960.

The Audiometric Studies on Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Treated with Streptomycin

Kwang Sub Chang¹, Heung Jai Choi¹, Kiho Kim¹, Hyun Soo Kim², Sang Ha Yoon²

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine and Soon Wha Hospital, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Otolaryngology, Yonsei University College of Medicine and Soon Wha Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

1) The audiometric studies of 103 case Selected from the Chronic pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Soon Wha Hospital were done. 2) This study revealed that the hearing impairment is increased in its occurrence and severity along with the increasing amount of Streptomycin administered, and this tendency is more evident in the frequencies other than conversational area. 3) In the detection of hearing impairment in Streptomycin toxity, the routine audiometric study is the primal importance rather than it's emergence of subjective symptoms.