Background A 51-year-old white man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who was infected with HCV genotype 2b presented with sudden left-sided hearing loss. He had been taking pegylated ...

The cause of acute or progressive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is unknown in most cases, but immune mechanisms are thought to contribute to hearing loss in a subset of patients. SNHL results from ...

Sensorineural hearing loss is a type of hearing loss that affects the inner ear. What does that mean? This type of hearing loss is permanent and not caused by something like excessive earwax, ear ...

A 45-year-old man presents to the otolaryngology department of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London, England, reporting having lost the hearing in his left ear over the previous ...

A 36-year-old woman presents to the clinic and reports left-sided hearing loss. She first noticed it five days prior when she could not use the telephone on her left side. She notes a buzzing sound ...

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is a relatively rare event in general practice but is regarded as needing urgent ENT assessment. The difficulty is that most patients with sudden hearing loss in ...

SUDDEN unilateral deafness may be the presenting symptom of a wide variety of medical and surgical diseases, such as vascular occlusion, hypercoagulation, acoustic neuroma, ototoxic drugs, meningitis, ...

Audiometry is a non-invasive and painless procedure to measure hearing sensitivity of an individual. The hearing test is performed using sounds of single frequency, tested at various intensity levels ...

The Mohan Babu University (MBU), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, has developed an assistive technology making it more accessible for individuals with sensorineural and conductive hearing loss, especially ...