The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of tinnitus and total effect of tinnitus and the hearing loss function on the distortion product otoacoustic emission. Tinnitus patients were selected to exhibit normal hearing and such tinnitus patients who exhibited the increasing or notch-like sensorineural hearing loss. It was found that the cochlear hearing activity expressed in terms of...

The test efficiency and reliability of loudness assessment using a computer-controlled method of cross-modality matching (CMM) between line length and loudness was investigated in children 4 to 12 years with normal hearing or mild to severe degrees of sensorineural hearing loss. Adult listeners with normal hearing served as a comparison group. Computer-generated visual and acoustic stimuli were...

Hearing loss has been the most prevalent sensory disability throughout the world. In Malaysia, National and Hearing Disorder Survey has reported that the prevalence of hearing disorder is about 17.14% with an estimated population of 28.8 million and 1.5% newborns have the onset of hearing impairment. A conventional hearing screening test’s applicability is limited as it requires a feedback resp...

BACKGROUND Hearing loss and tinnitus are global public health concerns. There have been some studies suggesting a relationship between hearing loss and tinnitus and impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but there have been no large cross-sectional epidemiologic studies of a representative sample of the entire country population investigating this possible association. OBJECTIVE The...

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 conservat...

BACKGROUND/AIM Almost 200 cochlear implantations were done in the four centers (two in Belgrade, per one in Novi Sad and Nis) in Serbia from 2002 to 2009. Less than 10% of implantees were postlingually deaf adults. The vast majority, i.e. 90% were pre- and perilingually profoundly deaf children. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of improved auditory perception due to cochlear im...

Normal-hearing subjects show improved speech understanding when they wear conventional passive hearing protectors in noisy surroundings. In contrast, hearing-impaired subjects are at a disadvantage. Sound attenuation exacerbates the handicap from hearing loss (Abel et al., 1982). Level-dependent (active) hearing protectors which provide limited amplification of sounds below 85 dBA have the oppo...