Background: The objective assessment of hearing in non-cooperative populations, such as neonates, remains a challenge. While Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) is the gold standard, its sensitivity to motion artifacts necessitates alternativ...
Precise and timely evaluation of an individual’s hearing loss plays an important role in determining appropriate treatment strategies, including medication and aural rehabilitation. However, currently available hearing assessment systems do not...
It has been shown recently that chirp-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) show better performance than click stimulations, especially at low intensity levels. In this paper we present the development, test, and evaluation of a series of notche...
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Survivors of childhood bacterial meningitis (BM) often develop hearing impairment (HI). In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), BM continues to be a significant cause of hearing disability. We assessed hearing among BM survivors using auditory s...
Background: Auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) are sustained potentials used to assess the physiological integrity of the auditory pathway and objectively estimate hearing thresholds. ASSRs are typically analyzed using statistical procedures to...
The main treatment approaches for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) involve oral and intratympanic corticosteroids, but their efficacy remains controversial. The study objective was to evaluate the benefit of oral corticosteroids followed by...
Background/Objectives: An air–bone gap (ABG) on audiometry is usually secondary to a conductive hearing loss. However, persistent and repeatable ABGs on audiometry in the absence of external or middle ear pathology is thought to arise from inne...
Objectives: ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a relapsing–remitting systemic disease in which auditory involvement is increasingly recognized as a determinant of quality of life. The objective of this study was to evaluate hearing outcomes du...
Objectives: Ear involvement is a common feature of antineutrophil antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). The vigilance of otolaryngologists often determines early diagnosis of AAV, thereby reducing the risk of irreversible organ damage and impr...
Background/Objectives: Military personnel are frequently exposed to high-risk acoustic trauma from blast waves. While macroscopic injuries like tympanic membrane perforation (TMP) are easily identified, subclinical microscopic damage, such as hidden...
Background/Objectives: Congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) is an infection caused by rubella virus transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy, which can cause congenital hearing loss. Cochlear implant can be an effective therapy in patients with severe...
Objective: Sound field (SF) audiometry is widely used to evaluate aided hearing performance. This study compared the test–retest reliability and between-system equivalence of SF audiometry between a newly designed SF system for small audiometri...
Background and Objectives: Systemic small-vessel vasculitis (SV) represents a group of rare autoimmune disorders with varied etiologies and clinical manifestations. Audiovestibular involvement in SV may present with a broad spectrum of symptoms, ofte...
Objectives: The aim of our investigation was to explore the relationship between unaided pure-tone and speech audiometry and self-reported aided performance measured according to five predetermined COSI categories among first-time hearing aid users a...
Background and Objectives: Audiometric monitoring is recommended for patients receiving ototoxic (chemo)radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (HNC), yet real-world uptake is poorly characterized and potentially inequitable. We quantified the uptake a...
Background and objectives: Osteoporosis and vitamin D3 deficiency may be risk factors of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of osteoporosis and 25(OH) vitamin D3 deficiency in a group of pa...
Background and Objectives: Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA) is a rare, autoimmune, multisystemic disease characterized by vasculitis and necrotizing granuloma that commonly affects the upper and lower respiratory tract and kidneys. Audiovestibu...
Background/Objectives: The objective of the study was to assess the benefits on quality of life (QoL) of a natural-based dietary supplement in patients with tinnitus. Methods: An observational, prospective and exploratory study was conducted in 30 pa...
Background: Recreational noise exposure from personal listening devices (PLDs) may lead to hidden hearing loss (HHL), affecting auditory nerve function despite normal pure-tone audiometry (PTA) and otoacoustic emissions (OAE). Subclinical auditory da...
Background and Objectives: Speech audiometry employs standardized materials, typically in the language spoken by the target population. Language-specific nuances, including phonological features, influence speech perception and recognition. The mater...
Background/Objectives: Fabry disease is an X-linked lysosomal storage disease. Earlier studies have mentioned dizziness/balance issues and vestibular involvement as a symptom of Fabry disease. Research on the matter remains scarce. This pilot study a...
Background: Eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD) is a common disorder causing ear pressure, pain, and hearing loss. Balloon Eustachian tuboplasty (BET) is an emerging technique for dilating the Eustachian tube and treating ETD. Whether adding myringotom...
Introduction: Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) evaluate the functional status of the cochlea. Repeated otitis media (OM) can cause changes in the peripheral structures of the auditory system, and, in this way, middle ear infection may irreversibly damage...
Bilateral vestibulopathy (BV) is a known cause of chronic vestibular syndrome. With the video head impulse test (VHIT), we can now evaluate all six semicircular canals independently and establish BV subgroups based on canal gain patterns. Background/...
Background and Objectives: Essential tremor (ET) is the most prevalent movement disorder, yet its neurophysiological basis remains incompletely understood. Emerging evidence indicates that ET may involve non-motor manifestations, including auditory d...
Background/Objectives: Objective assessment of auditory rehabilitation in children with cochlear implants (CIs) is challenging, as behavioral tests require cooperation that young children cannot always provide. The P1 component of the cortical audito...
Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics of hearing loss (HL) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its related factors. Methods: Ninety-one hospitalized SLE patients and thirty healthy controls were enrolled. All subj...
Background and Objectives: We hypothesized that an individual’s personality traits would have an impact on the distress of subjective tinnitus. To investigate this, 32 participants were recruited; we followed up with this cohort. This study is...
Background/Objectives: Cisplatin-exposed pediatric cancer patients are at increased risk of ototoxicity, particularly those under 5 years of age. In this group, audiological monitoring is challenging, as interpretation of otoacoustic emissions (OAEs)...
Background/Objectives: Hearing loss is a prevalent sensory impairment in older adults, linked to reduced quality of life, cognitive decline, and social isolation. While it usually begins in the high-frequency range, some individuals present with isol...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between tinnitus pitch and loudness, the frequency of hearing loss, hearing level, and the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) scores reported by patients. Methods: In total, 139 pa...
Background/Objectives: Macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel2) is a progressive parafoveal retinal disorder with emerging evidence supporting broader neurodegenerative and metabolic involvement. Given the vulnerability of cochlear structures to syste...
The misuse of personalized listening devices (PLDs) resulting in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) has become a public health concern, especially among youths, including medical students. The occupational use of PLDs that produce high-intensity sound...
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. During and after COVID-19, audiovestibular symptoms and impairments have been reported. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the peripheral and centra...
Background/Objectives: Conventional audiometry assesses hearing in the frequency range of 250–8000 Hz, while humans can detect sounds from 20 to 20,000 Hz. Hearing sensitivity above 8000 Hz can be assessed through “Extended high-frequency...
Background and Objectives: To evaluate the surgical management and outcomes of lateral semicircular canal fistulas (LSCFs) in patients with middle ear cholesteatoma, focusing on hearing preservation and vestibular function. Materials and Methods: A r...
Ototoxicity represents a clinically significant complication of anticancer therapy in pediatric patients. Cytotoxic agents used in oncology, particularly platinum-based chemotherapy, may induce damage to the auditory and vestibular systems, resulting...
Background and Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the influence of continuous positive airway pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea on hearing and the possibility of recovering cochlear receptor cells. Materials and Methods: For...
Hearing impairment, a rare inherited condition, is notably prevalent in populations with high rates of consanguinity. The most common form observed globally is autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss. Despite its prevalence, this genetic disor...
Background: the Bonebridge hearing implant is an active transcutaneous bone conduction implant suitable for various types of hearing loss. It was first launched in 2012 as the BCI 601, with a newer internal part (BCI 602) released in 2019. With the n...
The objective of the study was to assess the safety of the HyperSound® Audio System (HSS), a novel audio system using ultrasound technology, in normal hearing subjects under normal use conditions; we considered preexposure and post-exposure test desi...
The objective of this work is to confirm the asymmetry in non-linguistic auditory perception, as well as the influence of anxiety-depressive disorders on it. Eighty-six people were recruited in the emotional well-being group, fifty-six in the anxiety...
With the development of active noise cancellation (ANC) technology, ANC has been used to mitigate the effects of environmental noise on audiometric results. However, objective evaluation methods supporting the accuracy of audiometry for ANC exposure...
Introduction: Otitis media with effusion (OME) is common in pediatric primary care consultations. Its etiology is multifactorial, although it has been proven that inflammation factors mediate and that immunity is in a phase of relative immaturity. Th...
Background: Tinnitus is a rather prevalent, quite heterogeneous, and difficult to treat auditory disorder. The aim of this article is to provide the design and results of a cross-sectional study related to audiological and tinnitus features in a grou...
1 September 2023
Since the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, the possibility of audiological involvement by this virus has been speculated without being able to generate a true cause–effect relationship. The objective of this observational, descriptive cross-sectional stud...
Peripheral hearing loss is associated with the cross-modal re-organization of the auditory cortex, which can occur in both pre- and post-lingual deaf cases. Background/Objectives: Whether to rely on the visual cues in cases with severe hearing loss w...
Background/Objectives: Recurrent acute otitis media (AOM) in children is known to cause cumulative cochlear and vestibular injury. Whether a single fulminant episode severe enough to require surgical intervention produces an analogous long-term audio...
28 October 2021
Despite a keen interest in clinical research, most paramedical professionals are unwilling to play an active role. Our objective was to explore paramedical professionals’ representations of research. Using an existing database of final year paramedic...
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