Auditory neuropathy (AN) has been described in the literature as presenting with a combination of audiometric findings that include elevated behavioral audiometric thresholds, auditory brainstem response findings that are not consistent with audiometric findings, poor speech recognition, and present otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) and/or cochlear microphonics. Since the availability of clinical OA...

Introduction: Although the incidence and prevalence of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) has been decreased in recent decades, but it is still a major health problem in both developing and developed countries. CSOM can cause major and life-threatening complications such as hearing loss, meningitis and cerebral abscess. Since hearing loss is the most common complication of CSOM, we aimed t...

DEAFNESS is one of the most frequent degenerative processes associated with retinitis pigmentosa (Duke-Elder, 1940; Fowler, 1947), the frequency being variously reported as between 2 and 43 per cent. (Azzolini and Cortesi, 1951). These variations in the incidence in different series may be due to the diversity of methods employed to measure hearing and different criteria in evaluating the degre...

A review of large-scale surveys of hearing over the past 50 years reveals a "gender-reversal" phenomenon in the average audiograms of the elderly. Above 1 kHz males show greater average loss than females, but below 1 kHz females show greater average loss than males. The effect increases with both age and degree of hearing loss. The difference is present whether or not the elderly persons compla...

A sample of 209 adults ranging from 20 to 79 years of age were studied to measure speech communication profiles as a function of age in persons who did not identify themselves as hearing impaired. The study was conducted in order to evaluate age-related speech percepton abilities and ccammmication profiles in a population who do not present for hearing assessment and who are not included in cen...

BACKGROUND Hearing impairment (HI) in the elderly may be a risk factor for psychosis, but associations between HI and psychotic disorder or psychotic experiences have been reported more consistently in younger than in older populations. The aims of this study were to replicate the positive association between hearing impairment and psychotic experiences and to clarify any differences between gr...

UNLABELLED Teachers frequently report auditory symptoms and excessive noise in classrooms, but noise level measurements are not done routinely. Study model - a prospective clinical trial. AIM To study auditory symptoms and audiometric exams of teachers and classroom noise levels. MATERIAL AND METHOD Data from two groups, GI (40 teachers) and GII (40 voluntaries) were studied as follows: age...

Introduction Hearing loss can compromise the language, learning process, and socialization of students. Objective Study the audiometric findings among Curitiba and Metropolitan Area students. Methods Analysis of data collected at the hearing health service of Paraná State special education and inclusion department. Results The sample consisted of 646 students, children and teenagers of both gen...

UNLABELLED Mutations in the connexin 26 gene seem to be extremely common in non-syndromic hereditary deafness genesis, especially the 35delG, but there are still only a few studies that describe the audiometric characteristics of patients with these mutations. AIM to analyze the audiometric characteristics of patients with mutations in the connexin 26 gene in order to outline genotype-phenoty...