autoimmune disorders, most notably myasthenia gravis (MG) which is seen in up to 40% of cases.1,2 There are also a number of other less common autoimmune disorders associated with thymoma, including hyperexcitability syndromes,3 myositis,1 encephalitis,4 autonomic dysfunction,5 and lupus.6 In 2004 Vernino and Lennon7 reported autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in two patients from the...

UNLABELLED Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) related to chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) was studied to clarify the involvement of cholesteatomas in this context. AIM to evaluate SNHL related to CSOM and its association with cholesteatomas, disease duration and patients ages. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 115 patients with CSOM with and without cholesteatoma submitted to surgical...

The etiology of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children may be viral. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the role of viral infectious agents in children with idiopathic SNHL. Of 119 children with SNHL aged 3-168 months undergoing cochlear implant surgery at a hospital in Tehran, no cause could be established in 18 cases (15.1%). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and herpes simplex virus (H...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a rare complication of stapes surgery that may arise for many reasons. Usually, the pathogenesis of SNHL can be established by clinical and CT examinations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of MR imaging when CT findings are normal or not contributive. METHODS Eleven patients with SNHL (in some instances, associa...

Abstract Background Children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) form a major chunk of the population difficulty. Since auditory system is close to vestibular and shares common fluid, abnormality in might impair functioning system. Main body abstract The present systematic review aimed at studying application cervical ocular evoked myogenic potential responses (cVEMP oVEMP) during assessment...

PURPOSE The incidence of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) after treatment with combination of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and cisplatin-based chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients was evaluated, and relationships of SNHL with host factors, treatment-related factors, and radiation dosimetric parameters were investigated. METHODS Fifty-one NPC patients treate...

Vestibular end organ impairment is highly prevalent in children who have sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) rehabilitated with cochlear implants (CIs). As a result, spatial perception is likely to be impacted in this population. Of particular interest is the perception of visual vertical because it reflects a perceptual tilt in the roll axis and is sensitive to an imbalance in otolith function. ...

OBJECTIVES 1) Characterize the current presentation of pediatric temporal bone fractures, 2) compare two classification schemes for temporal bone fractures and illustrate complications in each fracture type. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Tertiary-care, academic children's hospital. PATIENTS All children presenting from 1999 to 2009 with CT-proven temporal bone fractu...