1 Speech and hearing therapist (MS student in Human Communication Disorder Federal University of Santa Maria) 2 Speech and Hearing Therapist; PhD in Human Communication Disorders Federal University of São Paulo Paulista School of Medicine (Associate Professor Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Speech and Hearing Therapy Federal University of Santa Maria) 3 MD; PhD in Human Communication Disorder...

BACKGROUND Primary empty sella is a herniation of the sellar diaphragm into the pituitary space. It is an incidental finding and patients may manifest neurological, ophthalmological and/or endocrine disorders. Episodes of vertigo, dizziness, and hearing loss, have been reported. OBJECTIVE To determine the conditional probability, as well as the statistical dependency, through the Bayesian ana...

This article provides an overview of four auditory disorders relevant generally to adults and especially to veterans. The disorders are noise-induced hearing loss, idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, otosclerosis, and Méniàre's disease. Sensorineural hearing loss characterizes each, but additional aspects vary with each of the four conditions. This article describes the conditions, di...

The current issue of the Iranian Rehabilitation Journal contains original research evaluating the efficacy of addiction rehabilitation an evaluation of a child rehabilitation system for community based research, reading program for children with down syndrome, auditory stream segregation in auditory processing disorder, speech and language disorders, quality of life of adolescents with hearing ...

Endocochlear, retrocochlear and/or central origin hearing damage may be related to the absence of appropriate levels of thyroid hormone during morphogenesis and/or auditory system development. Hearing disorders related to the thyroid are not well studied, despite speculation on the pathophysiological mechanisms. The objective of this review was to characterize the main pathophysiological mechan...

• Vol 9 • November 2007 814 There is an intriguing connection between renal diseases and hearing disorders. The incidence of sensorineural hearing loss among patients with chronic renal failure is considerably higher than in the general population. The incidence is about 46–77% according to different studies, ranging from mild to severe hearing loss [1,2]. The etiology of this phenomenon is not...

OBJECTIVE This article aims to examine data on Psychiatric diagnoses among deaf people in comparison with hearing people in the psychiatric hospital in Beau-Vallon. METHOD This work proposes to study the diagnostic data from the Summary Psychiatric Minimum (Résumé psychiatrique minimum: RPM) from the years 2000 until 2009 from the psychiatric hospital Beau Vallon and for which a hearing probl...