We outline our routine approach to tinnitus patients, highlighting the different aspects of our examination: the clinical history, objective ear, nose, and throat and general examination, and audiovestibular testing. We emphasize the interest in testing not only the cochlear but the vestibular function of the inner ear. In our view, this testing is of paramount importance, for the cochleovestib...

UNLABELLED The countless methods available to analyze hearing recovery in idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) cases hinder the comparison of the various treatments found in the literature. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to compare the different criteria for hearing recovery in ISSHL found in the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is an observational clinical cohort study fro...

BACKGROUND the Gaps-in-Noise (GIN) test assesses the auditory temporal resolution skill. Studies have described the GIN test an instrument of easy application and with good sensitivity and specificity. AIM to compare the results of the GIN test in normal listeners with and without tinnitus and to correlate the obtained results with pure tone thresholds and age. METHOD hearing tests were per...

INTRODUCTION Tinnitus is a perception of sound without external source. For complete assessment of tinnitus, central auditory processing abilities should be considered in addition to the routine psychological evaluation of tinnitus characteristics. Temporal processing is one of the important auditory skills that are necessary for complex higher level auditory processing. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the findings of behavioral hearing assessment in HIV-positive individuals who received and did not receive antiretroviral treatment. METHODS This research was a cross-sectional study. The participants were 45 HIV-positive individuals (18 not exposed and 27 exposed to antiretroviral treatment) and 30 control-group individuals. All subjects completed an audiological ev...

Introduction The paramount goal for subjects with sensory-neural hearing loss is to make as precise a distinction as possible among the different sites in the sensory system where a casual lesion may lie. The usual tests of conventional audiometry· viz., pure tone sensitivity measures; tests of recruitment and abnormal tone decay; Bekesy audiometry; speech audiometry; stapedius reflex measureme...

OBJECTIVES This study directly compared the accuracy of two audiometry-based tests for screening school children for hearing impairment: the currently used test, pure tone screen and a device newly applied to children, HearCheck Screener. DESIGN Two-gate case-control diagnostic test accuracy study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Hearing impaired children ('intended cases') aged 4-6 years were rec...