Association between vitamin D deficiency and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) incidence and recurrence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between serum vitamin D level and the risk of developing benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) incidence and recurrence in countries in the Northern Hemisphere.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data Sources: PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases were searched for studies published between January 2000 and February 2023.

Cochlear implantation in children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder: an updated systematic review.

Background: The goal of managing auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is to restore the children's ability to discriminate auditory information. Children who are not making sufficient progress in speech comprehension, and speech and language development after receiving adequate auditory re/habilitation and/or acoustic amplification may be candidates for cochlear implantation (CI). Despite the growing number of published literature on CI outcomes in children with ANSD, the current evidence is primarily based on case reports or retrospective chart reviews some of which had a limited number of children.

Telehealth Awareness, Perception, Practice, and Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Questionnaire to Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.

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On prediction of aided behavioural measures using speech auditory brainstem responses and decision trees.

Current clinical strategies to assess benefits from hearing aids (HAs) are based on self-reported questionnaires and speech-in-noise (SIN) tests; which require behavioural cooperation. Instead, objective measures based on Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) to speech stimuli would not require the individuals' cooperation. Here, we re-analysed an existing dataset to predict behavioural measures with speech-ABRs using regression trees.

Speech Auditory Brainstem Responses in Adult Hearing Aid Users: Effects of Aiding and Background Noise, and Prediction of Behavioral Measures.

Evaluation of patients who are unable to provide behavioral responses on standard clinical measures is challenging due to the lack of standard objective (non-behavioral) clinical audiological measures that assess the outcome of an intervention (e.g., hearing aids).

Speech-ABRs in cochlear implant recipients: feasibility study.

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of recording speech-ABRs from cochlear implant (CI) recipients, and to remove the artefact using a clinically applicable single-channel approach. Speech-ABRs were recorded to a 40 ms [da] presented loudspeaker using a two-channel electrode montage. Additionally, artefacts were recorded using an artificial-head incorporating a MED-EL CI with stimulation parameters as similar as possible to those of three MED-EL participants.

Speech Auditory Brainstem Responses: Effects of Background, Stimulus Duration, Consonant-Vowel, and Number of Epochs.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to systematically explore the effects of stimulus duration, background (quiet versus noise), and three consonant-vowels on speech-auditory brainstem responses (ABRs). Additionally, the minimum number of epochs required to record speech-ABRs with clearly identifiable waveform components was assessed. The purpose was to evaluate whether shorter duration stimuli could be reliably used to record speech-ABRs both in quiet and in background noise to the three consonant-vowels, as opposed to longer duration stimuli that are commonly used in the literature.

USH1G with unique retinal findings caused by a novel truncating mutation identified by genome-wide linkage analysis.

Purpose: Usher syndrome (USH) is an autosomal recessive disorder divided into three distinct clinical subtypes based on the severity of the hearing loss, manifestation of vestibular dysfunction, and the age of onset of retinitis pigmentosa and visual symptoms. To date, mutations in seven different genes have been reported to cause USH type 1 (USH1), the most severe form. Patients diagnosed with USH1 are known to be ideal candidates to benefit from cochlear implantation.

A comprehensive introduction to the genetic basis of non-syndromic hearing loss in the Saudi Arabian population.

Background: Hearing loss is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. Mutations in the DFNB1 locus have been reported to be the most common cause of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss worldwide. Apart from DFNB1, many other loci and their underlying genes have also been identified and the basis of our study was to provide a comprehensive introduction to the delineation of the molecular basis of non-syndromic hearing loss in the Saudi Arabian population.