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Use of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions to detect and monitor cochlear damage caused by platinum-containing drugs.

Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) have been evaluated as a means of monitoring cochlear function in patients receiving the chemotherapeutic agents cisplatin and carboplatin (-cis-diammine, 1,1-cyclobutane dicarboxylate (2) -0,0-platinum). Patients receiving these drugs were monitored prospectively with pure tone audiometry (PTA), tympanometry and TEOAE. Data was collected on 22 subjects receiving cisplatin and nine subjects receiving carboplatin. Significant deterioration in both PTA thresholds and TEOAE energy levels (with no change in tympanometry) were detected in the cisplatin group. No significant deterioration in audiological parameters occurred in the carboplatin group. It is indicated that cisplatin has a significant ototoxic effect in the majority of patients, whereas any ototoxic effect of carboplatin was undetectable. Our findings were different from previous studies in that the measurable changes in TEOAE occurred later than changes in the pure tone audiogram for the cisplatin group.[1]

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  1. Use of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions to detect and monitor cochlear damage caused by platinum-containing drugs. Yardley, M.P., Davies, C.M., Stevens, J.C. British journal of audiology. (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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