“…We would like to thank Dr. Lovato and Dr. De Filippis 1 for the constructive comment to our recent publication. 2 In our study, we evaluated 131 patients with a diagnosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) who were grouped by the degree of disease severity (high-severity SSHL [HS-SSHL, n 5 61] vs. low-severity SSHL [LS-SSHL, n 5 70]).…”