During the past three to four decades, the incidence of acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children living in more developed countries has fallen, as a result of improved neonatal care and the widespread implementation of immunisation programmes. The overall decrease has been accompanied by a relative increase in the proportion of inherited forms of SNHL. The contribution made by one...

Mumps is the most common cause of unilateral acquired sensorineural hearing loss in children. Although it usually affects the salivary glands. the inner ear may be involved. Deafness is usually unilateral, sudden in onset, profound and permanent. Bilateral total sensorineural hearing loss had been rarely reported in English literature. We present a case of total deafness due to asymptomatic mum...

A 34-year-old woman who was revealed to have Usher’s syndrome is reported. She was diagnosed with sensorineural hearing loss necessitating the use of hearing aids at the age of 6 and started to have progressive night vision loss when she was a teenager. Few years later, she developed daytime peripheral vision loss. She had normal intrauterine life with an uncomplicated birth. She denied any diz...

The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of hearing loss in a sample of typical public highschool students exposed to recreational noise, and determine associated risk factors. The sample was made up of 214 teenagers from a high-school in Mexico City; subjects were selected randomly per strata. We applied a questionnaire to identify risk factors for hearing loss and performed a batter...

A 12-year-old female patient presented with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Distortion-product otoacoustic emission testing failed to reveal any measurable emissions in the affected side. MR imaging did not reveal labyrinthine malformation. Three-dimensional Fourier transformation-constructive interference in steady-state MR images showed a thin cochlear branch. We speculated that mumps ...

The etiology of sensorineural hearing loss is multifactorial which makes the diagnosis a challenging exercise and often an unsolved mystery. Whilst pure tone audiometry is a mandatory investigation, others such as laboratory and radiology are based on clinical evaluation. This paper puts forward a protocol for the investigation for sensorineural hearing loss.

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is characterized by acute, idiopathic hearing deterioration. We report here the development and evaluation of "constraint-induced sound therapy", which is based on a well-established neuro-rehabilitation approach, and which is characterized by the plugging of the intact ear ("constraint") and the simultaneous, extensive stimulation of the affected ear with musi...

CONTEXT Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic condition in older adults and has important effects on their physical and mental health. Despite these effects, most older patients are not assessed or treated for hearing loss. OBJECTIVE To review the evidence on screening and management of hearing loss of older adults in the primary care setting. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION We ...

“Is carbogen gas effective in the treatment of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss?” Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, also known as “sudden deafness”, involves an abrupt, usually unilateral, partial or complete loss f hearing. For most patients, there is no factor known to account for the deafness and no consensus about the ost effective treatment. Patients with this condi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the recovery rate of sudden sensorineural hearing loss in children, and explore the prognostic factors in order to guide the clinical diagnosis and treatment. METHOD A retrospective review was conducted for the prognosis of children with sudden sensorineural hearing loss during the past 5 years (from November 2010 to May 2015) in Ch...