Reassessment of cochlear dead regions in hearing-impaired teenagers with severe-to-profound hearing loss

Autor:	Sarosh Kapadia, Brian C. J. Moore, Catherine Felthouse, Kevin J. Munro
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Mean age Inner hair cells Audiology Sensorineural hearing impairment Language and Linguistics Speech and Hearing Profound hearing loss otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Hearing impaired sense organs business
Zdroj:	International Journal of Audiology. 44:470-477
ISSN:	1708-8186 1499-2027
DOI:	10.1080/14992020500145783
Popis:	The aim of this study was to reassess cochlear dead regions after an interval of twelve months, using the Threshold Equalising Noise (TEN) test. Thirty-four ears of 24 teenagers (mean age of 14 years) with longstanding severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing impairment were tested. Testing was repeated after an interval of 12 months using the same experimental set-up. A total of eight (23.5%) out of 34 ears changed category on retest: this decreased to two (7.1%) out of 27 ears when the inconclusive category was removed from the analysis. In both of these ears (of the same participant) the criteria were met at a single frequency, and the masked threshold was only 10 dB above the TEN level per ERBN. When all of the data were examined on a frequency-by-frequency basis, the instances that changed category ranged from 15 to 51%. The range decreased to between 4 and 34% when the inconclusive category was removed from the analysis.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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