A conventional measure to determine the ability to understand speech in noisy backgrounds is the so-called speech reception threshold (SRT) for sentences. It yields the signal-to-noise ratio (in dB) for which half of the sentences are correctly perceived. The SRT defines to what degree speech must be audible to a listener in order to become just intelligible. There are indications that elderly ...

Katz (1978) has suggested that mild, fluctuating conductive hearing loss due to middle-ear anomalies may account for the language and attention problems of learning-disabled children. His position was extended here to include autism. Normal, learning-disabled, and autistic children received repeated impedance measures over 5 weeks. A repeated-measures ANOVA of central tendency and variability v...

This 42 year old woman had a history of delayed motor development, chronic muscle fatigue and gait disturbance. Her mother and mother’s brother suffered from similar symptoms. At the age of 20 she was diagnosed with Camurati-Engelmann syndrome. At that time she started to suffer from fluctuating tinnitus in the right ear and attacks of rotational vertigo lasting hours. The vertigo was accompani...

hearing loss (hl) is the most common sensory defect. various genetic as well as environmental factors have been shown to contribute in it. more than 100 loci have been recognized to cause autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss (arnshl). here, we report a 6-year old female patient with bilateral pre-lingual hl in whom a mutation has been identified in triobp gene (c.6362c>t, s2121l). in s...

Hearing loss has a broad differential diagnosis. Hearing impairment responding to corticosteroids is suggestive of an underlying autoimmune cause. We report a rare case of Cogan’s syndrome in a 28-year-old woman with no previous personal medical history. She had experienced two years of fluctuating hearing loss and bilateral keratitis that would respond to high-dose prednisone prescribed by her...

Our department conducted an examination of the clinical characteristics of Menière's disease with bilateral fluctuant hearing loss, using data obtained in a survey involving sixteen institutes associated with the Vestibular Disorder Research Committee, Japan. A total of 480 cases were surveyed, of which 204 showed normal hearing in the second ear, and were thus classified as unilateral Menière'...

BACKGROUND A large vestibular aqueduct (LVA) is the most common inner ear anomaly found on the imaging evaluation of children with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). It is frequently associated with syndromic and nonsyndromic forms of SNHL or as an isolated finding. Large vestibular aqueduct syndrome can be characterized by delayed-onset, fluctuating, asymmetric, unilateral or bilateral SNHL or...

Introduction: We investigated the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone on control of tinnitus and hearing loss in patients with Meniere’s disease.  Materials and Methods: 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of Meniere’s disease according to the 1995 criteria of The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO–HNS) who remained symptomatic despite medical therapy were a...

abstract background: previous studies have indicated an unspecific correlation between noise exposure and blood pressure disturbances. blood pressure disturbances could be caused by the environmental hazards such as noise exposure. the aim of this study is to analyze whether there is a relationship between noise exposure and hypertension. methods: atotal sample of 218 workers working in a small...