A prospective study on hearing loss in children with minor head injury was done because previous studies have indicated that a relatively high incidence of sensorineural hearing loss follows head injury. Forty patients aged 6-16 years, who had sustained loss of consciousness from head injury were interviewed and examined and compared with a control group. Most of the patients sustained frontal ...

BACKGROUND Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome (TRMA), also known as Rogers syndrome, is characterized by megaloblastic anemia, sensorineural hearing loss, and diabetes mellitus. Disturbances of the thiamine transport into the cells results from homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the SLC19A2 gene. CASE PRESENTATION We report a girl which presented with sensorineura...

Hearing impairment is common in patients with mitochondrial disorders, affecting over half of all cases at some time in the course of the disease. In some patients, deafness is only part of a multisystem disorder. By contrast, there are also a number of "pure" mitochondrial deafness disorders, the most common probably being maternally inherited. We retrospectively analyzed the last 60 genetical...

Autoimmune inner ear disease is a cause of sensorineural hearing loss, first described in 1979 by McCabe. The occurrence during rheumatic diseases is already documented in adults, but to our knowledge, this evidence is still lacking in children. A 13-yr-old girl affected by juvenile psoriatic arthritis, treated with etanercept, developed a bilateral and asymmetric sensorineural deafness. The pa...

Background: Diabetes mellitus and hearing loss are common public health problems. Sensorineural in Type 2 diabetes patients is an underestimated complication. The aim was to study the correlation between level of HbA1c degree sensorineural loss. Methods: It a cross sectional carried on 130 known cases T2DM, aged 25-50 years. Various confounding factors such as coexisting hypertension, ear disea...

Even though there are other complications of chronic suppurative otitis media, the aspect of hearing loss is often studied. Nevertheless, the occurrence of sensorineural hearing loss in patients with this disease is still controversial. This study aim (1) to assess the association between sensorineural hearing loss and chronic suppurative otitis media, (2) to investigate some clinical factors t...

Although enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome (EVAS) has been reported to be one of the most common anomalies associated with sensorineural hearing loss, the mechanism of such loss is unclear, and there are no established criteria for diagnosis. We report 4 patients with sensorineural hearing loss that were diagnosed during the last year in our department of EVAS. We review the diagnostic crit...

Disorders, Agents, or Events Associated with Decreased Transport of Taste Stimuli to the Taste Buds, 458 Disorders, Agents, or Events Associated with Damage to Taste Sensorineural Structures, 458 Conclusions, 460 References, 460 Olfactory Dysfunction and Its Causes, 450 Disorders Associated with Decreased Transport of Odorant Molecules to the Olfactory Neuroepithelium,453 Disorders, Agents, or ...

Duplication of the internal auditory canal is an uncommon, congenital malformation that can be associated with sensorineural hearing loss owing to aplasia/hypoplasia of the vestibulocochlear nerve. Only 14 such cases have been reported to date. We report the case of a 13-month-old girl with bilateral, congenital, sensorineural hearing loss caused by narrow, duplicated internal auditory canals a...

RATIONALE According to the World Health Organization reports, adult-onset hearing loss is the 15th leading cause of burden of disease, and is projected to move up to 7th by the year 2030, especially in high-income countries. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is considered by otologists as a true otologic emergency. The current standard treatment for sudden hearing loss is a tapered course of or...