BACKGROUND The problem of the potential impact of personal music players on the auditory system remains an open question. The purpose of the present study was to investigate, by means of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), whether listening to music on a personal player affected auditory function. MATERIAL/METHODS A group of 20 normally hearing adults was exposed to music played on a personal playe...

BACKGROUND the auditory steady state response (ASSR) is an electrophysiological procedure that evaluates, at the same time, the hearing thresholds of both ears at various frequencies. This procedure reduces the time of testing and enables the stimulation of levels close to 125dB HL, characterizing residual hearing. AIM to verify the applicability of the ASSR to determine the hearing threshold...

INTRODUCTION Meniere's disease (MD) is a disease of the inner ear that presents itself with repeated episodes of vertigo (96.2%), tinnitus (91.1%), and sensorineural hearing loss (87.7 %). In this article we sought to assess the effects of intratympanic (IT) injections of dexamethasone on definite cases of MD using electrocochleography (ECOG). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this hospital-based case...

Introduction Estimation of the incidence of noise-induced hearing loss sustained in the course of current operations requires both preand post-deployment pure tone audiometry. In a study of reserve personnel who deployed to Operation Herrick 6, 10% of personnel had good audiometric evidence to support a diagnosis of noise-induced hearing loss and a further 32% had audiograms that suggested it1....

Pediatric hearing evaluation based on pure tone audiometry does not always reflect how a child hears in everyday life. This practice is inappropriate when evaluating the difficulties children experiencing auditory processing disorder (APD) in school or on the playground. Despite the marked increase in research on pediatric APD, there remains limited access to proper evaluation worldwide. This p...

When conventional behavioural audiometry is difficult or impossible, or when its results are inaccurate or suspect, there is a need for more objective hearing tests. Candidates for such tests include young infants, uncooperative, hyperactive, or neurologically impaired children, and those suspected of non-organic hearing loss. The usual goal is to approximate pure tone thresholds, using some me...

BACKGROUND Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) are influenced in otosclerosis. The aim of the current study was to investigate the profile of transient evoked (TEOAEs) and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in association with multifrequency tympanometry measures in otosclerotic patients undergoing 2 types of stapes surgery: small fenestra and microtraumatic stapedotomy. MATERIAL AND ...

Methods: Patients who were diagnosed as idiopathic SSNHL and received no therapy were included in the study. Patients were divided into control and study groups. Patients in the study group received concurrent intratympanic steroid treatment with systemic steroid therapy. Patients in the control group received standard systemic steroid treatment alone. The duration of time before the treatment ...

Aim: To assess whether patients of NIDDM have a higher incidence sensorineural hearing loss.Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted included 100 participants such that 50 were diabetics and another werenondiabetics. Pure Tone Audiometry performed on the patient, results assessed by comparing them to patient'sdiabetes duration. The IBM SPSS version 20 software used for all data analys...

This study investigated whether age and/or differences in hearing sensitivity influence the perception of the emotion dimensions arousal (calm vs. aroused) and valence (positive vs. negative attitude) in conversational speech. To that end, this study specifically focused on the relationship between participants' ratings of short affective utterances and the utterances' acoustic parameters (pitc...