Objective: To review the effect of learning curve on the audiological results of patients surgically treated for cholesteatoma. Study design: Retrospective review of patients records in tertiary referral center. Patients: Retrospective study of 758 patients operated by one surgeon for acquired middle ear cholesteatoma divided into two periods. The patients were divided into three age groups: ch...

Every fifth person is affected by impaired hearing. Hearing loss, regardless of commitment, has an impact on people's quality life, and even when acquired later in it develops gradually impairs spoken communication, affecting sociability, employment, earning potential. Instead receiving social sympathy, the ridiculed. Among vascular diseases, arterial hypertension most common, causing pathologi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected health care services worldwide, including India. A test battery approach is required to effectively diagnose various audiological conditions, and utilizing a was challenging during COVID-19.

OBJECTIVE Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is characterized by a rapid loss of hearing, most often of cochlear origin. Very little attention has been paid in the literature to quality of life (QoL), psychosocial consequences and audiological rehabilitation after SSHL. DESIGN We studied how level of hearing loss, hearing recovery, tinnitus and vertigo affect QoL after SSHL and the psyc...

BACKGROUND Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) from prolonged occupational exposure to noise continues to rank among the top worldwide work-related ill-health problems. AIMS To provide an overview of incident cases based on work-related audiological ill-health data collected over a 9-year period from occupational physicians (OPs), audiological physicians (APs), general practitioners and otorhin...

INTRODUCTION Procedures for extending the life of newborns are closely related to potential causes of hearing loss, justifying the identification and understanding of risk factors for this deficiency. OBJECTIVE To characterize the population, analyze the frequency of risk factors for hearing loss, and assess the audiological status of infants attended in a Newborn Hearing Screening program (N...

OBJECTIVE To compare the audiological and radiological findings of patients with incomplete partition malformations (IPs) and analyze the relationship between the audiological and radiological findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 84 patients (168 ears) with IPs as follows: 26 patients with Type I;IP-I (41 ears), 54 patients with Type II;IP-II (108 ears), and 4 patients with Type...