Hearing Loss: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Dear Colleagues,

Hearing loss represents one of the most wide-ranging disabilities, affecting more than 5% of the world’s population. Different types of hearing loss, including conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, may lead to serious hearing impairments in children and adults. Multiple causes may be involved in the aetiopathogenesis of hearing loss, depending on the different biologic mechanisms, including congenital and autoimmune. Diagnosis and management continue to be a challenge for hearing disorders such as chronic otitis media, otosclerosis, cholesteatoma, congenital or acquired sensorineural hearing loss, sudden sensorineural or metabolic hearing loss, and otogenic facial palsy. Electrophysiology and neuroscience approaches are needed in order to better elucidate the diagnostic dilemmas in the field of otology and neurotology. New treatment options will be discussed to improve potential methods of hearing restoration.

We especially encourage submissions concerning hearing aids, cochlear/vestibular/auditory brainstem implantation, middle ear surgery, and stapedotomy:

• age-related hearing loss
• genes associated with hearing loss
• speech perception testings
• pathophysiologic patterns for hearing loss
• neuroimaging for inner ear
• electrophysiologic evaluation of hearing loss
• surgery for hearing loss / cophosis

Dr. George K. Psillas
Guest Editor

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