Tinnitus control by dopamine agonist pramipexole in presbycusis patients: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 888-893

  Sziklai, István ^a   Szilvássy, Judit ^a   Szilvássy, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

electrocochleography (ECOG); Idiopathic tinnitus; pramipexole; tinnitus handicap inventory (THI).

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PLACEBO; PRAMIPEXOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCOCHLEOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TINNITUS;

AGED; BENZOTHIAZOLES; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYCUSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINNITUS;

EID: 79953096506     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21461     Document Type: Article

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