OBJECTIVE To identify whether patients with diabetes have a higher incidence of sensorineural hearing loss than the general population and examine whether control of diabetes is related to severity of hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective database review; complete data mining of electronic medical record from 1989 to present. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Electronic medica...

Objective. Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is the most common radiographically identified cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss and is frequently progressive. Imaging is often ordered during the workup of children with congenital sensorineural hearing loss in part to identify enlarged vestibular aqueduct given concern for progression with head trauma. However, this association has not bee...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The role of antiendothelial cell antibodies in systemic vasculitis has been reported. The aim of the study was to define the clinical associations of serum antiendothelial cell antibodies in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss. METHODS Serum samples were taken from 59 conse...

susac's syndrome (ss) is a clinical triad of encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion and sensorineural hearing loss and maybe due to an immune-mediated endotheliopathy. because of its rarity and some similarities to other common neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, it is often misdiagnosed and therefore mistreated. to the best of o...

objective: generated acoustic trauma by suction and drill may cause sensorineural hearing loss after tympanomastoid surgery. this study was carried out to determine the relationship of sensorineural hearing loss and chronic otitis media surgery at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences in iran. material and methods: this prospective study included 386 patients of chronic middle ear di...

PURPOSE This study aimed to correlate probable predisposing factors for sensorineural hearing loss in elderly by investigating the audiologic characteristics and frequency of mutations in genes considered responsible for non-syndromic hearing loss. METHODS Sixty elderly patients were separated into two groups: the Case Group, composed of 30 individuals, 21 females and nine males, all 60 years...

it has been shown recently that loud clicks evoke myogenic potentials in the tonically contracting sternocleidomastoid muscles. studies have suggested that these potentials are of vestibular origin, especially of the saccule and inferior vestibular nerve. a pilot study was undertaken in our hospital to record vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemp) for the first time in iran. eighteen heal...