introduction: cochlear implantation can facilitate the development of communication skills in children with profound hearing loss. the objectives of our study were to determine the average ages at suspicion and diagnosis of hearing loss, amplification, intervention, and performing the cochlear implantation and to investigate the effects of the parents’ level of education and economic circumstan...

Introduction: Hearing loss is one of the most disabling impairments. Using a hearing aid as an attempt to improve the hearing problem can positively affect the quality of life for these people. This research was aimed to assess satisfaction of hearing impaired patients with their hearing aids regarding the employed technology and style.   Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytic cross-s...

this study aimed to investigate the contribution of four common dfnb (“dfn” for deafness and “b” for autosomal resessive locus) loci and gjb2 gene mutations (exon 2) in hearing impairment in individuals living in markazi and qom provinces of iran. forty consanguineous iranian families with at least three affected individuals in family or pedigree who suffer from an autosomal recessive non-syndr...

inner ear cells are sensitive to some metabolic and hormonal disorders, but the relation between chronic renal failure (crf), regular dialysis treatment (rdt) and sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) is still a debatable field. the object of this paper was to verify the presence of snhl in patients submitted to hemodialysis with different duration due to crf and in those submitted to conservative ...

sensorineural non-syndromic hearing loss is the most common disorder which affects 1 in 500 newborns. hearing loss is an extremely heterogeneous defect with more than 100 loci identified to date. according to the studies, mutations in gjb2 are estimated to be involved in 50- 80% of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss cases, but contribution of other loci in this disorder is yet ambig...

Introduction: Hearing is essential for humans to communicate with one another. Early diagnosis of hearing loss and intervention in neonates and infants can reduce developmental problems. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of hearing impairment in newborns admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and analyze the associated risk factors.   Materials and Methods:...

background and aim: this article carries out a literature review of the quality and limitations of the narrative-based language intervention (nbli) for preschool and school-age hearing aided and cochlear implanted children. recent findings: the authors conducted a comprehensive search of electronic databases such as web of science, scopus, pubmed, google scholar, cochrane, and proquest from 198...

background: hearing loss is one of the common complaints of diabetics. the aim of this study was to evaluate the hearing status of diabetic patients in babol, north of iran. methods: the hearing status of 50 type 2 diabetic patients (case group) and 50 healthy individuals (control group) were evaluated from october 2011 to september 2012. audiometry was done with the frequencies of 250, 500, 10...

introduction h syndrome (omim 612391) is an autosomal recessive disease with some features such as hyperpigmentation, hypertrichosis, heart anomalies, hepatosplenomegaly, hearing deficit, hypogonadism, short stature, flexion contracture of fingers and toes and hypertriglyceridemia. case presentation a 17-year-old boy with hyperpigmented, hypertrichotic and indurated seborrheic keratosis-like cu...