RATIONALE According to the World Health Organization reports, adult-onset hearing loss is the 15th leading cause of burden of disease, and is projected to move up to 7th by the year 2030, especially in high-income countries. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is considered by otologists as a true otologic emergency. The current standard treatment for sudden hearing loss is a tapered course of or...

BACKGROUND The management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss has not yet been standardised. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy influences recovery from sudden sensorineural hearing loss, but the underlying mechanism is unknown and the appropriate indications and protocols undetermined. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients affected by sudden sensorineural hearing loss were treated after unsuccessf...

Otosclerosis is a disease of the human otic capsule (1). Otosclerosis is well known to the otologist, as it is the most common cause for progressive conductive hearing loss in early adulthood. As hearing loss progresses, a sensorineural component is sometimes seen, resulting in a mixed hearing loss. In 1% of cases, the disease is considered purely cochlear, presenting with a sensorineural heari...

BACKGROUND Hearing loss is an infrequently-reported consequence of recreational drug abuse. Although there are sporadic reports of hearing loss from heroin and cocaine ingested separately, there are no reports of hearing loss resulting from the combination of both drugs ingested simultaneously in the form of speedballing. PURPOSE The purpose of this report is to document a case of bilateral s...

Introduction: Hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. The present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in Persian children age...

AIM To establish whether a better recovery of the sensorineural hearing loss can be achieved by systemic administration of a vasodilator and vitamins in a saline infusion immediately after a blast injury. METHODS Retrospective analysis included 134 patients with pure sensorineural hearing loss after blast injury (a total of 192 injuries), who were treated between 1991 and 1995. A group of 82 ...

Loss of hearing is a known problem in patients with chronic renal failure, occurring in 40-XO% of cases and being most often of the high frequency sensorineural type. We performed a study on 50 patients with this disease, including 20 who had undergone a successful kidney transplantation. Our results show an 80% incidence of hearing loss in these patients and a chance of improvement in at l...

Hearing loss has become very common today. Approximately 10% of the population suffering hearing impairment due to different reasons across the world. Among all most commonly observed sensorineural hearing loss caused due to poor cochlear hair cells function and damages to cochlear nerve. Sensorineural hearing loss is characterized by widening of auditory filter which leads to spectral masking ...

it has been shown recently that loud clicks evoke myogenic potentials in the tonically contracting sternocleidomastoid muscles. studies have suggested that these potentials are of vestibular origin, especially of the saccule and inferior vestibular nerve. a pilot study was undertaken in our hospital to record vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemp) for the first time in iran. eighteen heal...