Clinical Insights into Hearing Disorders: Towards Precision Diagnosis to Improve Outcomes and Quality of Life

Dear Colleagues,

We are all aware of the change we are witnessing, towards precision diagnosis and personalized care in all fields of medicine, including otorhinolaryngology (just think of the categorization of diagnostic profiles of patients suffering from chronic rhinitis or oncological diseases to choose the most effective therapy). For a long time, hearing loss has been treated without pursuing a precise diagnosis, which instead would lead to an improved clinical approach, considering all the comorbidities that often characterize a specific condition and consequently the outcomes and quality of life of affected patients. The categorization of the diagnostic profile of patients affected by hearing disorders is something that must be pursued to allow audiologists to make the best therapeutic choices and improve screening activities on pediatric and adult populations.

For example, antiviral therapy for cCMV and gene-targeted interventions represent a promising treatment for congenital sensorineural hearing loss, placing audiology in a critical period of transition from a predominantly prosthetic approach to a more medical preventive one.

This effort often includes further medical evaluations or referrals to multidisciplinary specialist care, pending the availability of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools or an updated interpretation of previous results.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to hearing disorders in children and adults. We consider contributions focused on precision diagnosis, personalized treatments and multidisciplinary care improving outcomes and quality of life of affected patients.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cochlear Implants and bone-anchored hearing implants
• Hearing Aids
• Innovative Technologies and Translational Therapies
• Genetics
• Audiological Screening and Diagnosis
• Auditory Neuropathy
• Unilateral Hearing Loss and Asymmetric Hearing Loss
• Hearing and Cognitive Impairment
• Presbycusis
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
• Ototoxicity
• Psychoacoustics and Music Perception
• Tinnitus

Dr. Tiziana Di Cesare
Guest Editor

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