What does PTS stand for?

Permanent Threshold Shift

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Prior acoustic insult, which does not result in permanent threshold shifts, potentiates aminoglycoside ototoxicity.

Drug-induced ototoxicity

I am very encouraged by these results that we may be able to find a way to diminish permanent threshold shift with noise exposure.

Soon, a pill to prevent noise-induced hearing loss

Noise-induced permanent threshold shifts affect 10 to 20 million people in the United States alone.

Noise control: a 100-year-old problem

They found that Soldiers who had deployed to a combat zone showed exponentially higher rates of noise-induced hearing loss, acoustic trauma, permanent threshold shift, tinnitus, eardrum perforation, and H3 or H4 profile (defined in Table 1) compared to those who had not deployed.

Fort Carson: an army hearing program success story

However, initial temporary threshold shifts in hearing acuity likely will be followed by a permanent change in acuity, described as permanent threshold shifts.

Properties of sound

The blast did not rupture the tympanic membrane, but it appeared to have caused a permanent threshold shift at 4 kHz.

Blast injury to the tympanic membrane

If any of these symptoms sound familiar, and if you have a history of noise exposure, you may be developing or already have a noise-induced permanent threshold shift, or NIPTS, as many call it.

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