It has been estimated that one child in 500 to 750 live births is born with a cleft palate (Rood & Stool, 1981). A high incidence of middle ear pathology is known to be associated with this problem (Bluestone, 1971). It is generally accepted that this population suffers from Eustachian tube dysfunction which leads in turn to the development of middle ear effusions and conductive hearing loss. T...

Background: Brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAERs) are electrophysiological investigations have widespread clinical utility in neurology, audiology, neonatology and anesthesiology. BAER responses exhibit a normal variability due to various non-pathologic factors and age is one of the variables suggested to have considerable influence on normal BAE responses. Aging changes in the auditory s...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Hearing is necessary to learn languages and speech develop cognitive skills. Unfortunately, many children with severe hearing loss from birth are not diagnosed until 21/2-3 years. of age. Implementing high-risk neonatal screening, detecting before 3 months, intervention 6 months will result in a better performance neonates.</...

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OBJECTIVE Vitamin B12 deficiency is frequently observed in developing countries. Herein we report the long-term clinical and laboratory outcomes in 45 children presented with various symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency. METHODS Symptoms and physical findings, and percentiles for weight, height, and head circumference at presentation were recorded. The educational level of the patients' mothers...

Based on outlier detection algorithms, a feasible quantification method for supraharmonic emission signals is presented. It designed to tackle the requirements of high-resolution and low data volume simultaneously in frequency domain. The proposed was developed from skewed distribution model self-tuning parameters density-based spatial clustering applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm. Spec...