Intralabyrinthine schwannoma (ILS) is a rare benign tumor that affects the ends of cochlear and vestibular nerves. In a majority of the cases, it occurs with unilateral progressive sensorineural hearing loss. Less frequent symptoms include tinnitus, imbalance, vertigo, or fullness. The advent of magnetic resonance imaging allows early diagnosis and enables an appropriate therapeutic protocol. T...

OBJECTIVE To use modern high-resolution inner ear imaging modalities to evaluate for endolymphatic hydrops (EH) in a patient with migraine-associated fluctuating hearing loss without vertigo spells or dizziness. BACKGROUND EH has been well described in patients with Meniere's disease on both human temporal bone studies and modern high-resolution imaging; however, there is no study to date, to...

OBJECTIVES To identify statistically significant risk factors for hearing loss in children with meningitis, determine the overall incidence of hearing loss in a large group of children with confirmed meningitis, and quantify the percentage of children with progressive or fluctuating hearing loss after meningitis. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. PATIENTS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS Four hundred th...

Records of 77 patients who had surgically proven perilymphatic fistula (PLF) from 1979 through 1988 were reviewed. During this period, 16 patients had a fluctuating hearing loss in association with spells of vertigo. Ten of these patients had been diagnosed as having Menière's disease by at least one otolaryngologist before exploration for PLF. Audio-vestibular functions were compared between t...

The perception of auditory roughness presumably results from imperfect spectral or temporal resolution. Sensorineural hearing loss, by affecting spectral resolution, may therefore alter roughness perception. In this study, normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners estimated the roughness of amplitude-modulated tones varying in carrier frequency, modulation rate, and modulation depth. Their ...

Fitting amplification to a patient with Ménière’s disease (MD) can present several challenges to the dispensing audiologist.These challenges include the presence of fluctuating hearing loss, a rising audiometric configuration, unilateral or asymmetrical hearing loss, reduced dynamic range, and reduced wordrecognition scores.The presence of any one of these characteristics could create obstacles...