What can be done about pulsatile tinnitus?
If a specific cause is found this may point to a specific solution. For example anaemia can be treated with medication or blood transfusion, glue ear can be treated with grommets, perforations can be closed with grafts and narrowed segments of artery can be repaired.
Some causes are less amenable to treatment: if a patient is born with ‘odd’ blood vessels in the neck these may not be treatable.
For those patients with pulsatile tinnitus who have no demonstrable abnormality, standard methods of tinnitus treatment will be used. These include techniques such as Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), counselling, sound therapy and relaxation therapy
If a specific cause is found this may point to a specific solution. For example anaemia can be treated with medication or blood transfusion, glue ear can be treated with grommets, perforations can be closed with grafts and narrowed segments of artery can be repaired.
Some causes are less amenable to treatment: if a patient is born with ‘odd’ blood vessels in the neck these may not be treatable.
For those patients with pulsatile tinnitus who have no demonstrable abnormality, standard methods of tinnitus treatment will be used. These include techniques such as Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), counselling, sound therapy and relaxation therapy
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