During the past three to four decades, the incidence of acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children living in more developed countries has fallen, as a result of improved neonatal care and the widespread implementation of immunisation programmes. The overall decrease has been accompanied by a relative increase in the proportion of inherited forms of SNHL. The contribution made by one...

Introduction: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a probable complication of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) Surgery, that may be due to embolism, perfusion failure and consumption of ototoxic drugs. Since the incidence of SNHL after CABG is different according to the various reports, the present study was designed to study hearing threshold change after CABG surgery. Method: In this cross...

introduction Dysfunction of inner ear, vestibulocochlear nerve or central brain processing centers leads to sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) is a rare but potentially treatable cause of hearing loss, characterized by progressive evolution over weeks to months.1 In 1958, an antigen-antibody reaction was described in 13 patients with progressive bilateral SNH...

With the introduction of newborn hearing screening, infants are being diagnosed with hearing loss during the first few months of life. For infants with a sensory/neural hearing loss (SNHL), the audiogram can be estimated objectively using auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing and hearing aids prescribed accordingly. However, for infants with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) due ...

A 26-year-old man was admitted to our clinic with approximately 8 years history of hearing loss on the right side. The pathological findings were not found in the neuro-otological examination. Severity sensorinoral hearing loss (SNHL) was determined on the pure tone audiometry. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) were shown that the lipomatous lesion involved right...

Background. Congenital CMV (cCMV) is the leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in the U.S. Approximately 40-60% of infants with symptomatic cCMV infection develop long term sequelae such as hearing loss. Currently, there are no identified predictors of hearing loss. The objectiveis to determine clinical predictors of SNHL in infants with symptomatic cCMV infection. Meth...

Objective. 312 tinnitus sufferers were studied in order to analyze: the clinical characteristics of tinnitus; the presence of tinnitus-age correlation and tinnitus-hearing loss correlation; the impact of tinnitus on subjects' life and where possible the etiological/predisposing factors of tinnitus. Results. There is a slight predominance of males. The highest percentage of tinnitus results in t...

introduction: conductive hearing loss due to chronic otitis media (com) can be treated by surgery. com, however, may be associated with functional damage to the inner ear. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) due to com has been found to be significant by some authors, whereas it has been considered negligible by others. the present study aimed to answer the question does com cause snhl ? methods:...

Introduction: Long-standing chronic otitis media (COM) may lead to sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). The present study aimed to evaluate the factors affecting the sensorineural component to counsel patients regarding the risk of SNHL at the event of untreated COM.   Material and Methods: A time-bound cross-sectional st...

As indicated in Chapter 2 estimates indicate that over 29 million individuals in the U.S. exhibit some degree of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) (NIDCD, 2001). It is well accepted that the major sequlae of SNHL is communicative difficulty, particularly in noisy or reverberant listening environments (Crandell, 1991, Crandell and Smaldino, 2000, 2001; Dubno, Dirks, and Morgan, 1984; Killion, 19...