Looking for Cochlear Dead Regions: A Clinical Experience with TEN-test
| Autor: | Silvia Palma, Silvano Prosser, Roberto Bovo, Silvia Rescazzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Hearing aid
medicine.medical_specialty Profound sensorineural hearing loss medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Audiogram Inner hair cells Audiology Speech and Hearing Cochlear partition otorhinolaryngologic diseases Psychophysics medicine Hearing impaired Audiometry business |
| Zdroj: | Audiological Medicine. 3:220-227 |
| ISSN: | 1651-3835 1651-386X |
| Popis: | A cochlear dead region (CDR), as explained by Moore, is an area of the cochlear partition where the inner hair cells are absent or completely non-functioning. It could explain some failures in hearing aid users in terms of speech intelligibility. The TEN (threshold-equalizing noise) test and PTC (psychophysics tuning curves) are the methods used at present to diagnose CDR. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the TEN-test results in a consecutive series of patients, selected by quite wide criteria and, in particular, to evaluate whether or not difficulties could arise in interpreting the results. Data were collected from 28 hearing impaired subjects with moderate to profound sensorineural hearing loss and from 10 normally hearing subjects (control group). The results showed 21 audiograms which did not meet the criterion to have CDR and seven audiograms suspected to present CDR. The TEN-test could be easily conducted by applying procedures common in clinical audiometry. Stimulus calibration should b... |
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