Abstract:Objective To analyze the clinical features, therapeutic efficacy, and prognosis of patients with high-frequency sudden sensorineural hearing loss (HF-SSNHL), and to explore its underlying etiology.Methods? A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 150 inpatients diagnosed with HF-SSNHL who received treatment between January 2023 and December 2025. Clinical characteristics were summarized, and the influence of different factors on treatment outcomes was investigated. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS 26.0 software.Results The proportion of patients with diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and cerebral infarction in the group with dizziness/vertigo was higher than that in the group without dizziness/vertigo, and the degree of hearing loss was also higher. The time from onset to visit was significantly shorter in the group with dizziness/vertigo than in the group without dizziness/vertigo (all p<0.05). The total effective rate of the group with dizziness/vertigo was statistically significant compared with the group without dizziness/vertigo (p>0.05), but the cure rate was not statistically significant (p<0.05) (Table 3). According to whether the vestibular function test was normal, the effective rate of sudden deafness without dizziness/vertigo was compared (Table 4). There were statistically significant differences among the groups of temperature test, v-HIT (superior semicircular canal), v-HIT (horizontal semicircular canal), and v-HIT (posterior semicircular canal) (p<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in the effective rate between the normal and abnormal groups of c-VEMP, o-VEMP, and positional test (p>0.05).Conclusion Patients with HF-SSNHL accompanied by dizziness/vertigo often have comorbid systemic vascular diseases (e.g., diabetes mellitus, hypertension) and more severe hearing loss. Dizziness/vertigo serves as an important clinical indicator of more extensive inner ear damage and potentially poorer prognosis. These patients tend to seek medical care more promptly, warranting more aggressive clinical treatment strategies. High-frequency hearing loss is closely associated with vestibular dysfunction, particularly affecting the cochlear basal turn, posterior semicircular canal, and saccule—structures sharing a common blood supply.