Disability Degree Assessment: A Comprehensive Approach According to Royal Decree 888/2022.

Backgorund And Objective: Royal Decree 888/2022 establishes that the evaluation of disability situations is carried out by multiprofessional teams responsible for assessing and recognizing the degree of disability. The participation of professionals in the healthcare and social fields can be valuable in providing reports from which the necessary data for the proper assessment of disability can be obtained, with the ultimate goal of providing comprehensive assistance to people with disabilities.

Materials And Methods: An analysis and summary of Royal Decree 888/2022, which has recently come into effect, is performed, focusing on the most relevant aspects for professionals in the healthcare and social fields.

Chronic cough in post-COVID syndrome: Laryngeal electromyography findings in vagus nerve neuropathy.

Background: Despite being a new entity, there is a large amount of information on the characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the symptoms of the acute phase; however, there are still many unknowns about the clinical features and pathophysiology of post-COVID syndrome. Refractory chronic cough is one of the most prevalent symptoms and carries both a medical problem and a social stigma. Many recent studies have highlighted the role of SARS-CoV-2 neurotropism, but no studies have demonstrated vagus nerve neuropathy as a cause of persistent chronic cough or other COVID-19 long-term effects.

Audiological evaluation (128-20,000Hz) in women with autoimmune thyroiditis: The role of antibodies vs. l-thyroxine deficiency.

Background And Aim: Although sensorineural hearing loss may have different aetiologies, we focused on autoimmune hearing loss since it may be reversible with corticosteroid therapy; this entity is sometimes associated with systemic autoimmune diseases. Hashimoto's thyroiditis or chronic autoimmune thyroiditis shows antibodies and may be harmful to hearing thresholds regardless of hypothyroidism effect. To date this effect has not been sufficiently studied and never with extended high frequencies.

Prevalence of presbycusis in an otologically normal population.

Objective: Presbycusis or age-related hearing loss is a bilaterally symmetric sensorineural hearing loss associated exclusively with age, excluding any other causes of hearing loss. Presbycusis is very relevant because of its high prevalence, and its consequences (e.g.

l-Thyroxine does not prevent immunemediated sensorineural hearing loss in autoimmune thyroid diseases.

Objective: This is the first report dealing with immune-mediated inner ear disease (IMIED) hearing loss in a group of patients affected with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), whose treatment required corticosteroids, despite being treated with levothyroxine. Immunopathology linking the inner ear and the thyroid gland is also presented.

Patients: A total of 220 patients were selected with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) of causes other than presbycusis.