Intralabyrinthine Vestibular Schwannoma Responsive to Intratympanic Gentamicin Treatment [PDF]
, 2017 Intralabyrinthine schwannoma (ILS) is a rare benign tumor that affects the ends of cochlear and vestibular nerves. In a majority of the cases, it occurs with unilateral progressive sensorineural hearing loss.
Barbara, Maurizio +6 more
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Pure tone audiometry and cerebral pathology in healthy older adults
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2019 Background Hearing impairment may be a modifiable risk factor for dementia. However, it is unclear how hearing associates with pathologies relevant to dementia in preclinical populations.
T. Parker +19 more
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Audiological manifestations in HIV-positive adults
Clinics, 2014 OBJECTIVE:To characterize the findings of behavioral hearing assessment in HIV-positive individuals who received and did not receive antiretroviral treatment.METHODS:This research was a cross-sectional study.
Carla Gentile Matas +3 more
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The psychophysics of absolute threshold and signal duration: A probabilistic approach [PDF]
, 2011 The absolute threshold for a tone depends on its duration; longer tones have lower thresholds. This effect has traditionally been explained in terms of ?temporal integration? involving the summation of energy or perceptual information over time.
Heil P. +5 more
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Effects of Cognitive Load on Pure-Tone Audiometry Thresholds in Younger and Older Adults
Ear and Hearing, 2019 Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Objectives: Cognitive load (CL) impairs listeners’ ability to comprehend sentences, recognize words, and identify speech sounds. Recent findings suggest that this effect originates in a disruption of
A. Heinrich, M. Ferguson, S. Mattys
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SELF REPORTED HEARING LOSS AMONG ELDERLY MALAYSIANS [PDF]
Malaysian Family Physician, 2010 A cross-sectional study was conducted on patients attending a primary care facility to determine the prevalence of self reported hearing loss using a single question, “Do you have hearing loss?” Pure tone audiometry was performed to compare the accuracy ...
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Simultaneous Contralateral Vestibular Schwannoma and Middle Ear Paraganglioma Tumor [PDF]
, 2017 To the best of our knowledge, only 2 cases of a simultaneous contralateral vestibular schwannoma (VS) and middle ear paraganglioma (MEP) have previously been reported in literature.
Barbara, M +6 more
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Majalah Kedokteran Bandung, 2013 Hearing skrining in school children can detect hearing loss due to otitis media earlier therefor treatment will give better outcome. Portable screening audiometer is a device which are simple, less expensive, brief, easy to use and has shorter ...
Widya W. Hartanto +2 more
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Prevalence of Asymptomatic Otitis Media with Effusion in Children with Adenoid Hypertrophy and its Relation to Adenoid Size: A Cross-sectional Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Introduction: Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) occurs as a sequelae of adenoid hypertrophy. But most often hearing loss due to OME goes unnoticed in children. This causes poor cognitive development, inattention and thus poor scholastic performance. Aim:
Sherin Maria Augustian +2 more
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Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Pure Tone Audiometry for Screening in Primary Health Care Clinics
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2018 Objective: To evaluate the performance of self-reported hearing loss alone and in combination with pure tone audiometry screening in primary health care clinics in South Africa.
Christine Louw +2 more
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