Background: Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects and early detection of this disorder at birth is not possible without hearing screening. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of loss to-follow-up after neonatal hearing screening and its related factors in KhoramAbad Province - Iran. Methods: This retrospective correlational study was conducted in the time period...

Paget's disease is a common bone remodeling disorder that typically begins with excessive bone resorption in the elderly. Bilateral progressive hearing loss is the most frequently encountered complication of Paget's disease. The types of hearing loss identified by audiometry are conductive, sensorineural, or both. However, the precise mechanism of hearing loss remains unclear, and the treatment...

RA (rheumatoid arthritis) is a chronic multisystem disease with a variety of systemic manifestations. One of these manifestations, is hearing disorder, so study of the relation between RA and hearing disorders is seem important. This was a case-control study which has done from December 2004 to August 2006. This study compared 50 patients with RA, with age, sex and job-matched as control. Audio...

BACKGROUND behavioral and electrophysiological evaluations contribute to the understanding of the hearing system and to the intervention process. AIM to investigate the occurrence of P300 in subjects with congenital severe to profound hearing loss, according to the variables of gender, age and hearing loss level. METHOD the design of this research is a descriptive transversal study. Twenty-...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a 3-month history of hearing difficulty in her left ear. This was related to a sudden feeling of blockage in her left ear with perceived distortion. The sensation of blockage cleared initially, but then recurred and persisted. Audiometrically her hearing was normal. An initial diagnosis of King–Kopetzky syndrome was made and further hearing tests were organize...

Background: behavioral and electrophysiological evaluations contribute to the understanding of the hearing system and to the intervention process. Aim: to investigate the occurrence of P300 in subjects with congenital severe to profound hearing loss, according to the variables of gender, age and hearing loss level. Method: the design of this research is a descriptive transversal study. Twenty-n...

BACKGROUND Speech production and speech phonetic features gradually improve in children by obtaining audio feedback after cochlear implantation or using hearing aids. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate automated classification of voice disorder in children with cochlear implantation and hearing aids. METHODS We considered 4 disorder categories in children's voice using the foll...

Otosclerosis is an otic capsule disorder that leads to progressive conductive and/or sensorineural hearing loss due to stapes footplate fixation and cochlear bone involvement. The disorder is bilateral in 70% of patients and it usually starts between the third and fifth decade. One of its characteristic clinical findings is Schwartze sign which refers to a reddish discoloration over the promont...