UNLABELLED The main issue regarding pediatric audiology diagnosis is determining procedures to configure reliable results which can be used to predict frequency-specific hearing thresholds. AIM To investigate the correlation between auditory steady-state response (ASSR) with other tests in children with sensorineural hearing loss. METHODS Prospective cross-sectional contemporary cohort stud...

CONCLUSION These findings provide the basis for understanding the duration of the effect after the last use of the drug and encourage a larger clinical trial to collect additional evidence on the effect of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in preventing the development of hearing loss in subjects with presbycusis. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a water-soluble fo...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is any influence of systemic arterial hypertension on the peripheral auditory system. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study that investigated 40 individuals between 30 and 50 years old, who were divided into groups with and without systemic arterial hypertension, using data from high-frequency audiometry, transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions and disto...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of an Apple iOS-based automated hearing testing application and to compare its accuracy with conventional audiometry. STUDY DESIGN Prospective diagnostic study. Setting Academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS An iOS-based software application was developed to perform automated pure-tone hearing testing on the iPhone, iPod...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to determine whether a combination of automatically administered pure-tone audiometry and a tone-in-noise detection task, both delivered via an air conduction (AC) pathway, could reliably and validly predict the presence of a conductive component to the hearing loss. The authors hypothesized that performance on the battery of tests would vary a...

BACKGROUND Audiological evaluation of parents of individuals with autosomal recessive hearing loss. AIM To study the audiological profile of parents of individuals with autosomal recessive hearing loss, inferred by family history or by molecular tests that detected heterozygous mutations in the GJB2 gene. This gene codes Connexin 26. METHOD Participants were 36 subjects, ranging between 30 ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the residual hearing of severely hearing-impaired children and adults could be preserved using the soft surgery approach. PATIENTS AND METHODS This project employed a prospective study design. All testing and surgery took place in the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland. Twenty-six patients (7 children and 19 post-lingually deafene...

Background: High blood glucose levels are found to derange the vessels in stria vascularis and adjacentnerves thus it results into diminished ability hear Early diagnosis treatment can prevent severity orpermanent hearing loss.Method: 40 adult patients aged between 30 50 years were studied by pure tone audiometry. By audiometry thedegree, type configuration of was assessed. Ear examination done...

Hearing loss has been reported as a complication following cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation. Preoperative hearing testing is not commonly done in these procedures, so preoperative and postoperative hearing loss, if any, may occur unnoticed. 30 subjects in the age range of 50-70 with a mean age of 60.16 years with myocardial infarction and scheduled to undergo cardiopulmonary bypa...