Sudden Hearing Loss: How Ear Stroke Affects the Inner Earâs Tiny Hair Cells
Imagine waking up one morning to a muffled, silent world in one earâno pain, no warning. This is sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), often called an ear stroke, and it strikes nearly 66,000 Americans each year. Inside the cochlea, the delicate hair cells that translate sound into electrical signals are starved of oxygen and attacked by a cascade of excitotoxicity and free radicals.
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