1Despite being relativelycommon, with an incidence of 5-20 cases per 100,000 peo-ple per year,2the physiopathogenesis of ISSHL remains to beclarified. A recurring drawback in ISSHL is a delay in its diag-nosis and, due to a variety of etiologies, an individualizedprognostic assessment remains difficult to establish, and isfrequently inaccurate.