Search results for " audiologia"

Prelingual sensorineural hearing loss and infants at risk: Western Sicily report.

2013

Objective: To evaluate independent etiologic factor associated with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in newborn at risk; to study the role of their interaction especially in NICU infants who present often multiple risk factors for SNHL. Methods: The main risk factors for SNHL reported by JCIH 2007 were evaluated on 508 infant at risk ranging from 4 to 20 weeks of life, transferred to the Audiology Department of Palermo from the main births centers of Western Sicily. After a global audiological assessment, performed with TEOAE, tympanometry and ABR, the prevalence and the effect of risk factors was statistically studied through univariate and multivariate analysis on the total population (n…

Fatores que influenciam a ocorrência de otite media entre crianças sicilianas com infecções de vias aéreas superiores

2016

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Upper respiratory tract infection is a nonspecific term used to describe an acute infection involving the nose, paranasal sinuses, pharynx and larynx. Upper respiratory tract infections in children are often associated with Eustachian tube dysfunction and complicated by otitis media, an inflammatory process within the middle ear. Environmental, epidemiologic and familial risk factors for otitis media (such as sex, socioeconomic and educational factors, smoke exposure, allergy or duration of breastfeeding) have been previously reported, but actually no data about their diffusion among Sicilian children with upper respiratory tract infections are available. OBJECTIVE: T…

E-ABR in Patients with Cochlear Implant: A Comparison between Patients with Malformed Cochlea and Normal Cochlea

2019

Objectives This study aims to compare the electrical auditory brainstem response (EABR) following cochlear implant (CI) surgery in pediatric subjects with cochlear malformation and a normal cochlea, in order to assess the sensitivity of EABR and to evaluate the surgery outcome. Materials and methods A total of 26 pediatric subjects who were deaf and scheduled for CI surgery were enrolled into this case control study. Group A (n=20) included subjects with a normo-conformed cochlea. Group B (n=6) included subjects with cochlear malformation. Subjects were evaluated with EABR immediately (T0) and 6 months (T1) post-CI surgery. The EABR Waves III and V average amplitude and latency were compare…

MENIERE’S DISEASE & NEUROVASCULAR CROSS-COMPRESSION: CASE REPORT

2009

Meniere’s disease is typically characterized by the classic symptomatological triad consisting of vertigo associated with nausea and vomiting, fluctuating but progressive hearing loss, and tinnitus. The main pathophysiological substrate of Meniere's disease is certainly endolymphatic hydrops, the etiology of which is probably multifactorial, but still not completely understood. Recently, it has been shown that vertigo, hearing loss, and tinnitus can be the result of a vascular loop impinging on the VIIIth nerve and giving rise to the symptomatological complex that can been defined as Meniere's disease due to ‘cochleovestibular nerve compression syndrome’ (CNCS). In this cases the surgical t…

Il trattamento chirurgico della M. di M.

2010

La maggior parte delle sindromi vertiginose richiede un intervento terapeutico limitato alla fase acuta o subacuta ed inoltre la maggior parte delle labirintopatie croniche possono essere controllate dalla terapia farmacologico- riabilitativa, nel contesto nella storia naturale della malattia stessa. Solo in alcune forme di vertigine il ricorso ad un trattamento chirurgico rappresenta spesso l’unica modalità di controllo nel tempo di un sintomo così disabilitante. Acuzie e frequenza, in questo caso, giocano un ruolo importante, soprattutto se legato alla condizione di frustrazione ed isolamento da una vita sociale e lavorativa normale per un prolungato periodo di tempo. Tra i quadri morbosi…

Neonatal Hearing Screening: Three years of experience in Western Sicily

2006

LA POSTUROGRAFIA STATICA

2010

Essential of audiology: screening and postscreening

2014

Newborn hearing screening is a type of screening testfor the early detection of hearing loss. It can recognizewith good accuracy newborns affected by hearingimpairment allowing an early diagnosis and interventionand avoiding cognitive and linguistic deficits [1-6].The incidence of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss(SNHL) in Sicily is 2.35 cases per 1000 newborns; thisvalue increases to 2.95 if we consider also unilateral SNHL[2,3] and to 10 cases per 1000 births among infants at risk[7-9].A correct newborn hearing screening programme isbased on different protocols depending on the presence/absence of audiologic risk factors:† Newborns without risk factors: [1-3]Initial Hearing Screening (…

Arteriovenous malformation of the base lingua in pregnancy: case report

2009

Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the head and neck is a rare vascular anomaly but when present is persistent and progressive in nature and can represent itself truly as a lethal benign disease. We present here an unusual case of an AVM of the base lingua in a 32year old primigravida at 23.2 weeks of gestation with an history of hemoptysis. The patient was admitted to hospital with 10.7 g/dl of Hemoglobin and 32.1% of hematocrit but due to recurrent massive hemoptysis in the days after dropped to 6.7 g/dl of Hemoglobin and 20.2% of hematocrit which required immediate blood transfusions. To maintain upper airways the patient underwent tracheostomy; during angiography, showing a AVM with it…

Presbyastasis: from diagnosis to management

2019

Currently, the elderly population (>65 years old) is in very growth. In fact, in Italy old age index (number of elderly per 100 persons under the age of 14 years) is estimated to be 157,7 and is projected to increase to 257,9 in the year 20651,2. The increase of the elderly population determines the increase of the age-dependent diseases including also impairment of the vestibular function, this problem is defined "presbiastasia". Patient suffering from this condition exhibit disturbances of static and dynamic postural control with far less frequent cases of relapsing objective rotatory vertigo. Occasionally, they also report a feeling of insecurity in new or unknown environments, increa…