Publications by authors named "Ana Helena Bannwart Dell'Aringa"
Unlabelled: Radiotherapy has been widely used given its increase in the successful outcomes and cure of some cancers.
Aim: To evaluate the functionality of the auditory system in patients who underwent radiotherapy treatment for head and neck tumors.
Materials And Methods: From May 2007 to May 2008, otorhinolaryngological and audiological evaluation (Pure Tone Audiometry (air and bone conduction), Speech Audiometry, Tympanometry, Acoustic Reflex testing and Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions) were performed in 19 patients diagnosed with head and neck neoplasia and treated with radiotherapy.
Unlabelled: Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry (BERA) is an objective and non-invasive method of hearing assessment which detects electrical activity from the inner ear to the inferior colliculus.
Aim: To assess the hearing pathway in normal hearing individuals and compare differences associated with gender, age and ear side (left and right).
Study Design: A retrospective study.
Unlabelled: Lip reading (LR) is unconsciously practiced as we communicate and has currently been widely used in the assessment of hearing impaired people. The hearing challenged individual is able "to read" lip position and thus interpret the speech sounds of the speaker; however, it is very likely that the best lip reader can only catch 50% of the words uttered.
Methodology: 30 individuals of both gender, with age ranging from 27 to 89 years, carriers of moderate bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
Background: communication strategies (CS) are mechanisms used to facilitate speech comprehension and the transmission of a message to another speaker.
Aim: to characterize the communication strategies used by 20 adults, fitted with hearing aids, with moderate sensorineural hearing loss.
Method: a 60 minute interview, with an audiologist, with and without the hearing aid.