Hearing thresholds in patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis
| Autor: | Luca D'Ascanio, Fabrizio Salvinelli, Manuele Casale, V. Luccarelli, Vincenzo Denaro, A. De Martino, Francesco Cancilleri, V. Di Peco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss Arthritis Audiology Arthritis Rheumatoid Bone conduction Quality of life otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Humans Hearing Loss Aged medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Auditory Threshold Tympanometry Middle Aged medicine.disease Otorhinolaryngology Acoustic Impedance Tests Rheumatoid arthritis Audiometry Pure-Tone Regression Analysis Female Pure tone audiometry medicine.symptom Audiometry business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical otolaryngology and allied sciences. 29(1) |
| ISSN: | 0307-7772 |
| Popis: | The aim of the study was to evaluate hearing thresholds in 38 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, divided according to disease activity into active (group A, n = 20) and non-active (group B, n = 18) patients. Pure tone audiometry, tympanometry and complete rheumatological assessment were performed. All patients presented poorer auditory thresholds compared with controls. Patients of group A had both air and bone conduction thresholds poorer than group B (although not statistically significant), and most patients of both groups presented an air-bone (a-b) gap. No significant difference in middle ear pressure was noticed between patients and controls. No correlation between hearing impairment and duration of the disease or patients' age was found. The high prevalence of hearing loss in autoimmune diseases supports the importance of audiometric evaluation in such patients. The auditory recovery through middle ear surgery before cranial nerve involvement could be considered in selected patients. Further investigations are needed for a better knowledge of the middle and inner ear involvement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. |
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