OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional comparative study tried to assess the hearing status of the high risk infants by Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) and compare with that of the normal infants. MATERIAL & METHODS BERA was done on 127 infants of 6 to 18 months age of which 87 were high risk. All were given monaural acoustic stimulation using Cz-M₁/M₂ Montage. Waves I, III and V were ana...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of using transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOEs) to assess hearing in infants recovered from meningitis. METHODS Recordings of TEOEs and visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) were performed in a prospective study of 39 children aged 6 to 24 months recovering from a purulent meningitis. Patients with no TEOEs, or whose VRA fin...

Purpose. Subjective tinnitus has different forms and degrees of severity. Many studies in the literature have assessed psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus but hardly any of them had focused on the association of audiological profile with onset duration and loudness perception. The aim of this study was to evaluate existence of any association between tinnitus loudness/onset duration and ...

Objectives: To screen new-borns to diagnose any hearing impairment early. Method: The prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, from November 1, 2020, April 30, 2021, either gender aged >12h born via spontaneous vaginal delivery, induced labour, Caesarean section. A predesigned question...

BACKGROUND The problem of the potential impact of personal music players on the auditory system remains an open question. The purpose of the present study was to investigate, by means of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), whether listening to music on a personal player affected auditory function. MATERIAL/METHODS A group of 20 normally hearing adults was exposed to music played on a personal playe...

BACKGROUND the auditory steady state response (ASSR) is an electrophysiological procedure that evaluates, at the same time, the hearing thresholds of both ears at various frequencies. This procedure reduces the time of testing and enables the stimulation of levels close to 125dB HL, characterizing residual hearing. AIM to verify the applicability of the ASSR to determine the hearing threshold...

Abstract Background Hearing is commonly impaired in Behçet’s disease (BD). Also, vestibular abnormalities as well cochlear function affection have been found. The inflammatory process which leads to BD may be the cause of frequency audiometry those patients. aim this study assess hearing and vestibulo-colic reflex Behçet patients using convential pure-tone (cPTA), high-frequency (HFA), cervical...

UNLABELLED Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multifactorial chronic systemic inflammatory disease, of unknown origin, characterized by the presence of autoantibodies and polymorphic clinical manifestations. This disease may involve multiple organs and systems. The most common findings are articular, cutaneous, vascular, renal, neurological, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hematological, ocular...

background and aim: kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute childhood febrile illness with world­wide incidence and the highest incidence occurs in asian children, with coronary arteritis being the main complication. sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) has also been described as a comp­lication of kd in several articles. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of snhl in patients with kd t...