Enlarged vestibular aqueduct as a cause of postneonatal deafness.

Introduction: The enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) is the most frequent malformation of the inner ear associated with sensorineural hearing loss (5-15%). It exists when the diameter in imaging tests is greater than 1.5 mm at its midpoint.

Universal neonatal hearing screening and delayed hearing loss or late-developmental hearing loss.

Objective: To determine the percentage of children with permanent bilateral postnatal hearing loss in order to study its incidence, related risk factors, diagnosis and treatment.

Methods: Retrospective study to collect data on children diagnosed with hearing loss outside the neonatal period in the Hearing Loss Unit of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, from April 2014 to April 2021.

Results: 52 cases met the inclusion criteria.

Development and validation of the Spanish abbreviated version of the Transsexual Voice Questionnaire for Male-to-Female Transsexuals.

Objective: The aim of this study was to create and validate an abbreviated version of the Spanish Transsexual Voice Questionnaire for Male-to-Female Transsexuals (SvTVQ).

Setting: The study was conducted by two referral hospitals for voice feminization surgery and by a university department of psychology and speech therapy, all in Spain.

Subjects And Methods: We prospectively studied 51 male-to-female transsexuals who underwent voice feminization surgery between January 2017 and December 2018.

Application of Wireless Contralateral Routing of Signal (CROS) Technology in Unilateral Cochlear Implant Users.

Introduction: Single cochlear implantation usually provides substantial speech intelligibility benefits but bilaterally deaf, unilaterally implanted subjects will continue to experience limitations due to the head shadow effect, like single-sided deaf individuals. In the treatment of individuals with single-sided deafness one option is contralateral routing of signal (CROS) devices, which constitute a non-surgical intervention of the second ear in unilaterally implanted individuals.

Method: Twelve experienced adult cochlear implant users with Naída Q70 processor and the CROS device used in combination participated in the study.