Caroverin and Inner Ear Diseases

Inclusion Criteria: * Men or women aged at least eighteen * Written consent to take part in the study after receiving information from the trial physician * One of the following illnesses: * Decompensated tinnitus * Sudden hearing loss * Morbus Menière * Blast injury * Presbyacusis with Tinnitus * Chron. Otitis media Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who are not able to give their consent (e.g. dementia, coma, mental disability,…) * Women of childbearing age who are not using adequate contraception or who are (or plan to become) pregnant (a pregnancy test must be carried out by a doctor once a month in Austria) or are lactating * If there are solid reasons to doubt that the patient would be willing and able to cooperate * Known intolerance of/hypersensitivity to caroverine * Subjects who have taken part in another clinical trial within the 30 days preceding the start of this study or during this study * Pulse-synchronous tinnitus * Tinnitus caused by malposition of the jaw bone (bruxism) * Eardrum perforation * Subjects who have previously had a barotraumas, diving accidents or decompression sickness * Retrocochlear hearing disorder * Patients who have previously had a fracture of the petrous bone * Subjects suffering from acute or chronic accompanying conditions which severely impede their general health (NYHA stage IV, cancer, HIV etc.) * Accompanying conditions that according to the current state of scientific knowledge could affect the parameters used in this…