2025 October - 34 articles
Background/Objectives: Audiometric methods for hearing-impaired patients are constantly evolving as new therapeutic interventions and improved clinical standards are established. This study aimed to explore the relationship between patient-reported o...
Background/Objectives: The Eustachian tube (ET) is a physiological channel connecting the middle ear with the external atmosphere. The ET plays a role in maintaining the pressure balance of the middle ear, protecting it from pathogen invasion, and cl...
Objectives: Typical BPPV forms are widespread and easily diagnosed disorders. However, some forms of labyrinthine lithiasis can differ from the typical BPPV paradigm, showing their own signs and symptoms and resulting in variable therapeutic response...
Background/Objectives: Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-associated hearing loss is common in non-genetic congenital hearing loss. Despite this high prevalence, a wide range of clinical characteristics exists, and the pattern of hearing loss remains unknown. Thi...
Background/Objectives: The voice is often perceived as a natural and spontaneous means of communication, but it involves complex interactions among physiological, psychological, and environmental factors. For teachers, whose profession relies heavily...
Purpose: Decentralized hearing care models facilitated by community health workers (CHWs) can improve access to care in low-income settings. Preset hearing aids, which offer user-selectable pre-developed amplification programs, may support such model...
Objectives: Hearing aids (HAs) are the most common intervention recommended for hearing loss (HL). Many adults with HL do not seek HA rehabilitation. Several studies have attempted to identify barriers and facilitators to using HAs. Different bureauc...
Background: hearing loss represents, today, one of the most significant health problems affecting the world’s population. This clinical condition, particularly manifest in adulthood, can arise or be aggravated by both the presence of specific p...
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Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate retrospectively self-reported changes in tinnitus severity and distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination using validated self-report instruments. It further explored patient-reported onset of...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to linguistically and culturally adapt the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) and the Hearing Handicap Inventory (HHI) for the Elderly/Adults to Danish and to investigate the reliability an...
Background: Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 1 (SMA type 1) is a genetic neuromuscular disease that typically presents before 6 months of age and is characterized by profound hypotonia, progressive muscle weakness, and early involvement of respiratory an...
Introduction: Noggin encoding (NOG) gene plays a critical role in early embryogenesis and development of bones, joints, cartilage, eyes, and neural tissue. The NOG gene encodes the noggin protein. Noggin is the only secreted inhibitor of bone morphog...
Background/Objectives: Spanish-speaking patients face persistent barriers in accessing equitable audiological care, particularly when standardized language-appropriate tools are lacking. Two Spanish-language sentence recognition tests, the Spanish Az...
Background/Objectives: Previous research has demonstrated that the perception of self-motion, as signaled by cervical proprioception, is significantly altered during neck muscle fatigue, while no similar effects are observed when self-motion is signa...
Purpose: The present study aimed to describe the adaptation and validation process of the MuRQoL (Music Related Quality of Life questionnaire) from English to Hebrew and to describe normative data from a cohort of adults with normal hearing versus th...
Background and Clinical Significance: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) most commonly involves the posterior semicircular canal (PSC), whereas anterior semicircular canal BPPV (ASC-BPPV) is rare, accounting for only 1–3% of cases. Mos...
Background/Objectives: Skull vibration-induced nystagmus (SVIN) is a rapid bedside test that reveals vestibular asymmetry. Its clinical utility in Ménière’s disease (MD) remains controversial, particularly regarding its associatio...
Background: Hearing and cognition decline with age. Hearing is now considered an independent risk factor for later cognitive impairment. Computerized cognitive auditory training is being discussed as a possible adjunctive therapy approach. Objectives...
Background/Objectives: A.BA.CO. is a speech-to-text captioning system developed for school classrooms. The system uses remote microphones to capture the teacher’s speech without background noise. Under this setup, an issue of signal latency ari...
Background/Objectives: Although research has demonstrated the positive impacts of hearing aid (HA) digital noise reduction (DNR), limited research is available on the impacts of the strength of DNR on listening effort. This study evaluated the effect...
Background/Objectives: The primary objective of the present study was to investigate early global development in children after one year of cochlear implant (CI) use. The secondary objective was to investigate the role of variables such as age at CI...
Parenting stress significantly affects caregivers of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, influenced by unique challenges and stressors. Background/Objectives: This study aims to develop the Chinese Family Stress Scale (CFSS) and to identify the...
Background: Children diagnosed with Speech Sound Disorders (SSDs) encounter difficulties in speech perception, especially when listening in the presence of background noise. Recommended protocols for auditory processing evaluation include behavioral...
Objectives: Tip fold-over (TFO) is a rare but critical occurrence in cochlear implant procedures where the electrode array folds back on itself within the cochlea, compromising programming and device performance. Timely intraoperative detection is es...
Background/Objectives: The Matrix Sentence Test is an audiological evaluation that quantifies the signal-to-noise ratio, expressed in decibels, at which the patient comprehends 50% of the words of a random sentence heard in noise. It is an effective...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the Croatian version of the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly—Screening Version (HHIE-S-CRO) in screening for hearing loss greater than 20 dB HL in the bette...
Introduction: Most audiometers have an in-built “Stenger test” setting. The test is sometimes applied in cases of single-sided deafness as an indicator of malingering. Although textbooks have been written about it, the underlying conditio...
Objective: To analyze the effects of a somatosensory education intervention targeting temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and awake bruxism on subjective tinnitus. Methods: This study had a pre-post-design in a primary care practice for orofacial physi...
Background/Objectives: Potential correlations between the scores of self-report questionnaires and speech perception in noise abilities vary widely among studies and have been little explored in patients with conventional hearing aids (HAs). This stu...
Background/Objectives: During and after electric–acoustic stimulation (EAS) surgery (as well as regular cochlear implant surgery), the oral and/or intravenous administration of steroids is recommended to prevent acute inflammatory reactions and...
Hearing loss is a genetically heterogeneous sensory defect for which biallelic pathogenic variants in the GJB2 gene are a frequent cause. Here, we report a novel intragenic large deletion in GJB2 in a Mayan family with several members affected by con...
Background/Objectives: To evaluate the predictive role of anti-compensatory saccades in diagnosing mild acute unilateral vestibular loss. Methods: Consecutive patients with vertigo who underwent a bedside vestibular evaluation and video head impulse...
Background/Objectives: This research focuses on the increasing presence of older workers in the labor market, a group particularly vulnerable to hearing problems due to age-related changes and prolonged noise exposure. Methods: The research combines...
