Comunicazione presentata al Meeting sul Tinnitus, svolto a Stresa nel giugno 2009. Relazione tra acufeni e disturbi del sonno.

1. G. Attanasio 1,2 R. Roukos 1 F. Y. Russo 1 M. Saponara 1 1: Sapienza – University of Rome – Dept. Neurology and Otolaryngology 2: Acufeni.net onlus Association

7. Materials And Methods Software: DOMINO© by Somnomedics®. All PSG studies has been reviewed by a trained personnel (Rechtschaffen and Kales with AASM Manual).

9. Results Sleep Efficiency % Subjective sleep Tinnitus before sleep (1-10) Tinnitus at wakeup (1-10) THI Score (Max=50) 91 Poor 1 5 30 93.3 average 3 6 41 88.4 average 6 2 5 77.9 poor 5 5 na 87.4 NA NA NA na 74 average 8 6 14 59.6 average 5 5 8 79.4 average 4 3 12 61.1 average 10 10 41 65.5 good 9 9 40 77.9 poor 7 2 13 60.4 poor 5 5 24

10. Results Efficient Sleep >85%

11. Results: Sleep stages All patients had abnormal percentages of sleep stages 1 and 2. The average of stage1+stage2 is 85,4% ± 6.3 while the normal values range between 50 and 65% REM sleep lacked in all our patients with an average of 6,4 ± 4,9 while normal values should be between 20 and 25%. %REM (N=20-25%) % stage 1 (N=3-8%) %stage 2 (N=45-55%) % stage 1 + stage2 (N=50-65%) 0.8 4.6 76.8 81.4 12.4 43 41.5 84.5 7.3 28.1 50.2 78.3 16 36.9 44.2 81.1 2.5 14.9 69.9 84.8 1.4 33.6 55.3 88.9 4.4 41.5 34.8 76.3 6 52.3 38.2 90.5 0.2 62.5 36.1 98.6 5.5 44.1 45.2 89.3 11.4 39.7 42 81.7 8.6 48.3 41.8 90.1

13. Results sleep stages and THI score