Hearing Loss, Conductive
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Age-related use and benefit of the bone-anchored hearing aid compact.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To study age-related patient satisfaction with the bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) compact. METHODS: A retrospective postal questionnaire, the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA), was sent to 211 BAHA Compact users. ... Read more...

Failures in stapedotomy for otosclerosis.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To review the results of 78 revision stapedotomies, determining the causes of failure and the predictors of surgical success. STUDY DESIGN: Case series with chart review. SETTING: Tertiary referral center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: ... Read more...

Imaging of hearing loss.

30 Jul 2009 In this article, we review the common entities causing the hearing loss and divide these pathologies into conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, and mixed hearing loss. With this format, congenital pathologies are addressed first ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hearing Loss, Conductive'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Age-related use and benefit of the bone-anchored hearing aid compact. 30 Aug 2009
• Tuberculous otitis media. 30 Aug 2009
• Failures in stapedotomy for otosclerosis. 30 Aug 2009
• Imaging of hearing loss. 30 Jul 2009
• The assessment of hearing test results following surgery for otitis media with effusion in adults using the Glasgow Benefit Plot: how we do it. 30 Jul 2009
• Preoperative considerations and indications for revision stapedectomy. 30 Jul 2009
• Wideband energy reflectance measurements of ossicular chain discontinuity and repair in human temporal bone. 30 Jul 2009
• Bone-anchored hearing aid implant location in relation to skin reactions. 30 Jul 2009
• Postpartum vertigo and superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding speech in noise after correction of congenital unilateral aural atresia: effects of age in the emergence of binaural squelch but not in use of head-shadow. 3 Jul 2009
• Infant air and bone conduction tone burst auditory brain stem responses for classification of hearing loss and the relationship to behavioral thresholds. 30 May 2009
• Balance after stapedotomy: analysis of balance with computerized dynamic posturography. 30 May 2009
• Hearing loss in children. 30 May 2009
• Audiometric, surgical, and genetic findings in 15 ears of patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. 30 May 2009
• Bone-anchored hearing aid A single-stage procedure in children. 24 May 2009
• [Association of an arachnoid cyst with heterotopic neuroglial tissue in the internal auditory canal] 17 May 2009
• Hearing loss unusually caused by tubercular retropharyngeal abscess. 29 Apr 2009
• Neurofibromatosis type 1 causing conductive hearing loss. 29 Apr 2009
• [Verification of malleus head fixation : computed tomography as diagnosis standard] 29 Apr 2009
• Neuroendocrine adenoma of the middle ear (NAME). 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Hearing Loss, Conductive'

Definition: Hearing loss due to interference with the mechanical reception or amplification of sound to the COCHLEA. The interference is in the outer or middle ear involving the EAR CANAL; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; or EAR OSSICLES.

Descriptor UI: D006314

Alternative terms: Hearing Loss, Conductive; Conductive Hearing Loss;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C09.218.458.341.562; C10.597.751.418.341.562; C23.888.592.763.393.341.562;

History Note: 91(79); was see under HEARING LOSS, PARTIAL 1979-90

Technical Notes: HEARING LOSS, MIXED CONDUCTIVE-SENSORINEURAL is also available.