The impact of white matter hyperintensities on speech perception
| Autor: | Antonio Greco, Giampietro Ricci, Angela Musacchio, Massimo Ralli, Daniela Messineo, Dalila Roccamatisi, Arianna Di Stadio |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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speech understanding medicine.medical_specialty Speech perception Neurology white matter lesion Dermatology Audiology Aging Gliosis Magnetic resonance imaging Speech understanding White matter hyperintensities White matter lesion Correlation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans magnetic resonance imaging 030212 general & internal medicine Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Neuroradiology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry aging Brain General Medicine Tympanometry white matter hyperintensities White Matter Hyperintensity Psychiatry and Mental health gliosis Speech Perception Female Neurology (clinical) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Popis: | The presence of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) can impact on normal brain function by altering normal signal transmission and determining different symptoms. To evaluate the relationship between the presence of brain WMHs and the scores of speech perception test (SPT) in a sample of normal-hearing patients under 70 years of age. Prospective study. One hundred eleven patients underwent audiological screening with pure tone audiometry (PTA), tympanometry, speech perception testing (SPT), and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). T2 sequences were analyzed to identify the presence of WMH that, if identified, were scored using the Fazekas score. Statistical multiple regression analysis was performed to understand the relationship between PTA and SPT score; the Pearson's and Spearman's tests were used to evaluate the correlation between Fazekas scores and SPT. Chi-square test was used to analyze the difference between gender. The results of PTA were not predictive of the SPT score. A negative statistically significant correlation (Spearman's, p = 0.0001; Pearson's, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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