Acute sensorineural hearing loss may appear in some autoimmune diseases. Authors presented a case of 31 years old pregnant woman with Leśniowski-Crohn disease, in who acute total deafness of one ear and sensorineural hearing loss in the second ear appeared after she got pregnant. Immunological etiology was confirmed by presence of antinuclear and anti-type II collagen antibodies. Hearing level ...

Hearing loss is common among older adults. Research has found a prevalence of 33% or higher of bilateral hearing loss in people 50 and older (Mitchell et al., 2011). Hearing loss has been associated with decline in both mental and physical health. Problems linked to hearing loss include lower cognitive functioning, functional status, and quality of lifefortunately, many older adults who purchas...

INTRODUCTION The aetiology of sudden hearing loss is poorly defined; however, infectious, vascular and neoplastic aetiologies are presumed to be responsible. In addition, the aetiology of bilateral sudden hearing loss is also unknown. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is identify the characteristics and treatment response of simultaneous bilateral sudden hearing loss. METHODS This is a ...

introduction: to demonstrate surgical techniques and to compare the anatomical and functional outcomes between temporalis fascia and cartilage palisade grafting in type-i underlay tympanoplasty in patients with large/subtotal perforation.materials and methods:temporalis fascia and cartilage palisade grafting were conducted in group a and group b, respectively, each containing 30 patients with l...

A pontine intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) evokes several neurological symptoms, due to the various nuclei and nerve fibers; however, hearing loss from a pontine ICH is rare. We have experienced a non-traumatic pontine ICH patient, with hearing loss. A 43-year-old male patient had a massive pontine hemorrhage; his brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed the hemorrhage on the bilateral dorsal pon...

INTRODUCTION  Description for using stethoscopes adapted to hearing aids. AIM  To describe the adaptation of HAs to stethoscopes used by 2 students in the health field with bilateral hearing impairment. CASE REPORTS  Two subjects with hearing loss had their stethoscopes coupled to HAs because of the individual requirements of their professions (healthcare) to perform auscultation. CONCLUS...

A cross-sectional, experimental, and randomized repeated-measures design study was used to examine the objective and subjective value of telecoil and hearing loop systems. Word recognition and speech perception were tested in 12 older adult hearing aid users using the telecoil and microphone inputs in quiet and noise conditions. Participants were asked to subjectively rate cognitive listening e...

The suprathreshold word-recognition scores for 2 young, adult males with bilateral, symmetrical sensorineural hearing impairment were evaluated following monaural and then binaural hearing-aid fitting. Subjects were obtained by retrospective review of records. Subject 1 was followed over an approximately 11.5-year time period and Subject 2 was followed over an approximately 6-year period. Resul...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of occult hearing loss in elderly inpatients, to evaluate feasibility of opportunistic hearing screening and to determine subsequent provision of hearing aids. MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects (>65 years) were recruited from five elderly care wards. Hearing loss was detected by a ward-based hearing screen comprising patient-reported assessment of hearing di...

Modern digital hearing aids provide unprecedented means of compensating for hearing impairments. However, this comes at the price of adjusting complex processing parameters. To achieve an individual optimum, all processing parameters have to be carefully preand re-adjusted. The required time and effort can often not be made available. To provide an independent means of optimizing speech intelli...