OBJECTIVE To examine the yield of ophthalmologic examination in the diagnostic workup of unexplained sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of ophthalmologic findings in children with unilateral or bilateral SNHL between January 1998 and May 2000. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Children 18 years or younger presenting with unil...

HYPOTHESIS Different pharmacotherapies for sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) are interconnected in metabolic networks with molecular hubs. BACKGROUND Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit worldwide. Dozens of drugs have shown efficacy against SNHL in animal studies and a few in human studies. Analyzing metabolic networks that interconnect these drugs will point to and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of hearing impairment in children with congenital anomalies of the central nervous system (CNS) by using detailed audiological evaluation methods. METHODS The patients were 78 children with congenital anomalies of the CNS with a mean age of 29.5 months. They had been observed for a mean period of 38.5 months. Hearing levels were evaluated behavioral observ...

Apgar scores of 0-4 at 1 minute and 0-6 at 5 minutes have been investigated as risk criteria in the Utah High Risk Hearing Screening Program. The 1990 Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) statement recommended only an Apgar score of 0-3 at 5 minutes be included in a risk registry for sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). An analysis of live births indicates the more lenient Utah cut-off criter...

To estimate the frequency of isolated enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) in patients with non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in an Egyptian population sample and to correlate its size with the degree of hearing loss. The study group comprised 16 patients (32 ears) suffering from non-syndromic SNHL since childhood. After a complete basic audiological evaluation, all patients were su...

OBJECTIVE To address the characteristics of hearing loss in patients with Turner syndrome (TS), we evaluated hearing levels of patients with TS and analyzed causative factors. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-three patients with TS (8 to 40 years of age) were studied through the use of audiological measurements, and causative factors were explored. RESULTS Twenty cases (35 of 66 ears tested) showed high...

OBJECTIVE This report presents data from four studies to examine standard bone-conduction reference equivalent threshold force levels (RETFL), especially at 4 kHz where anomalous air-bone gaps are common. DESIGN Data were mined from studies that obtained air- and bone-conduction thresholds from normal-hearing and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) participants, using commercial audiometers and...

Owing to its subjective nature, behavioral pure-tone audiometry often is an unreliable testing method in uncooperative subjects, and assessing the true hearing threshold becomes difficult. In such cases, objective tests are used for hearing-threshold determination (i.e., auditory brainstem evoked potentials [ABEP] and frequency-specific auditory evoked potentials: slow negative response at 10 m...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a common adverse effect for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients treated with chemoradiotherapy. We report a case of 12-year follow-up from a patient with stage IIB NPC, treated in 2004 with intensity-modulated radiotherapy and cisplatin-based chemotherapy. Pure-tone audiograms were conducted before treatment and at two other points in the 12-year period ...

introduction: hearing impairment is the most frequent sensorial congenital defect in newborns and has increased to 2–4 cases per 1,000 live births. sensory-neural hearing loss (snhl) accounts for more than 90% of all hearing loss. this disorder is associated with other congenital disorders such as renal, skeletal, ocular, and cardiac disorders. given that congenital heart diseases are life-thre...