Textbook of Tinnitus - 9781607611448

Comprehensive and developed by a panel of leading international experts in the field, Tinnitus: Diagnosis and Treatment provides a multidisciplinary overview of the diagnosis and management of a widespread and troubling disorder. Importantly, the book emphasizes that tinnitus is not one disease but a group of rather diverse disorders with different pathophysiology, different causes and, consequently, different treatments. This groundbreaking title is organized in six sections that will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners, including otolaryngologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, internal medicine physicians, and primary care clinicians. Clinical audiologists and psychologists may also be interested. The first section describes the basic aspects of tinnitus and the symptoms that often accompany tinnitus: How the different forms of tinnitus are viewed by members of different specialties and by the patient. Section two provides information about the epidemiology of tinnitus for children, adults and seniors. The anatomy and physiology of tinnitus as studied in patients and in animal models are topics of chapters in section two as well. The objective signs of tinnitus are also discussed in a chapter in this section. Section three discusses causes of tinnitus. Section four details how to diagnose the different forms of tinnitus using examination of patients to determine the character of the tinnitus (continuous, intermittent, pulsatile, its frequency range etc.). The rate of occurrence of the tinnitus (very rare, rare, frequent etc.) and whether it appears together with other symptoms such as hyperacusis and phonophobia are topics that are also discussed. Tinnitus that occurs together with other diseases such as Ménière's disease, Wilson's disease and so on is also discussed in the chapters of this section. Chapters in section five concern clinical descriptions of the various forms of tinnitus. Finally, section six provides an extensive coverage of the available treatments for management of tinnitus. Chapters review standard treatment procedures and offer information about experimental approaches, which have shown great promise. Therapeutic options for the different forms of tinnitus and description of the treatment procedures are the topics of the chapters in this section. This section also discusses the efficacy of different treatments (including evidence level) and it warns against non-efficient and obsolete treatments that should be avoided. Thus this groundbreaking title describes both the theoretical background of the different forms of tinnitus and detailed knowledge of the state of the art of its treatment written for clinicians by clinicians and researchers in the field. It provides state-of-the-art information in a form suitable for those who want to provide diagnosis and therapy of tinnitus in their clinical praxis. The expected readership of the proposed book is clinicians from the fields of otolaryngology, neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery and general medicine, clinical audiologists and psychologists. The proposed book can also serve as a reference for clinicians who do not treat tinnitus patients routinely because its organization and its extensive subject index.