Case Report Diving Hyperb Med 2025

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as salvage treatment for post-traumatic sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a case report

Baptista L, Guincho J, Donato M, Araújo P, Amaro C, Escada P — Diving Hyperb Med, 2025

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Clinicians reported the first documented case of HBOT used to treat sensorineural hearing loss in a child following head trauma -- a 13-year-old boy with a longitudinal temporal bone fracture and moderate high-frequency hearing loss that persisted despite 3 months of standard drug treatment.

What They Found

The patient hearing loss completely resolved after 11 HBOT sessions, after failing to respond to corticosteroids and betahistine for 3 months. This is the first report of HBOT achieving this outcome in a paediatric traumatic hearing loss case.

Canadian Relevance

No direct Canadian connection identified. Relevant to Canadian audiologists, ENT specialists, and paediatric emergency teams managing children with head trauma.

Study Limitations

Single paediatric case report; complete spontaneous resolution after 3 months cannot be entirely ruled out, though it would be atypical at this point in the recovery timeline.

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Study Details

Study Type	Case Report
Category	Sudden Hearing Loss
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	41364867
Year Published	2025
Journal	Diving Hyperb Med
MeSH Terms	Humans; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Male; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; Adolescent; Salvage Therapy; Hearing Loss, Sudden; Temporal Bone; Craniocerebral Trauma; Tinnitus

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Last reviewed: March 19, 2026 | Reviewed by: Canada Hyperbarics Editorial Team | Editorial process | Research sources | Counts & methodology