Extended high frequency audiometry thresholds in healthy school children.

Objectives: Extended high frequency (EHF) audiometry is the recommended method for monitoring oxotoxic hearing loss in children. This study aims to provide high quality reference audiological data for the EHF range in healthy children.

Methods: Participants were 126 healthy schoolchildren between 6 and 14 years of age.

Hearing in Schoolchildren After Neonatal Exposure to a High-Dose Gentamicin Regimen.

Objective: To assess the association between gentamicin exposure in the neonatal period and hearing in school age.

Methods: This study included children exposed to a high-dose (6 mg/kg) gentamicin regimen as neonates (2004-2012), invited for follow-up at school age, and a healthy age-matched control group. We assessed hearing with pure tone audiometry including the extended high-frequency (EHF) range.

Hearing loss before and after cisplatin-based chemotherapy in testicular cancer survivors: a longitudinal study.

Background: Hearing loss is a well-known long-term effect after cisplatin-based chemotherapy (CBCT) in testicular cancer survivors (TCS), but longitudinal data are sparse. We evaluate hearing loss and the impact of age in TCS treated with CBCT in this longitudinal study.

Material And Methods: Forty-six TCS treated with CBCT 1980-1994 with audiograms (0.

Tinnitus, Anxiety, Depression and Substance Abuse in Rock Musicians a Norwegian Survey.

Objective: Rock musicians are known to have an increased prevalence of hearing loss and tinnitus. The aims of the present study were to examine the distribution of anxiety and depression symptoms among rock musicians with or without tinnitus and how these mental health indicators and internal locus of control influenced upon their tinnitus symptom concerns and the degree to which the tinnitus affected their lives.

Design: The study was a questionnairebased cross-sectional survey of subjects selected from a cohort of rock musicians.

Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions in rock musicians.

Objective: Our focus in this study was the assessment of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) in a large group of rock musicians. A further objective was to analyse tinnitus among rock musicians as related to TEOAEs.

Design: The study was a cross-sectional survey of rock musicians selected at random.

Localization of Staphylococcus aureus in tissue from the nasal vestibule in healthy carriers.

Background: Colonization of the body is an important step in Staphylococcus aureus infection. S. aureus colonizes skin and mucous membranes in humans and several animal species.

Hearing loss and tinnitus in rock musicians: A Norwegian survey.

Our focus in this study was to assess hearing thresholds and the prevalence and characteristics of tinnitus in a large group of rock musicians based in Norway. A further objective was to assess related factors such as exposure, instrument category, and the preventive effect of hearing protection. The study was a cross-sectional survey of rock musicians selected at random from a defined cohort of musicians.

[A woman in her fifties with neck pain and increased sedimentation rate].

Background: Spondylitis in the upper cervical spine can have an insidious onset, with symptoms mimicking low-grade infections or common musculoskeletal disorders. Some patients have neurological symptoms, and if untreated, the outcome may be fatal.

Case Presentation: A woman in her fifties had general malaise, weight loss and neck pain over 6-8 weeks.

Evoked potentials in the Atlantic cod following putatively innocuous and putatively noxious electrical stimulation: a minimally invasive approach.

Aspects of peripheral and central nociception have previously been studied through recording of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) to putative noxious stimuli in specific brain regions in a few freshwater fish species. In the present study, we describe a novel, minimally invasive method for recording SEPs from the central nervous system of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Cutaneous electric stimulation of the tail in 15 fish elicited SEPs at all stimulus intensities (2, 5, 10 and 20 mA) with quantitative properties corresponding to stimulus intensity.

β-trace protein as a diagnostic marker for perilymphatic fluid fistula: a prospective controlled pilot study to test a sample collection technique.

Objectives: The diagnosis of perilymphatic fluid (PLF) fistula is still challenging. Perilymphatic fluid fistula is one possible complication after stapedotomy or cochlear implant surgery. We have performed a prospective diagnostic pilot study to further investigate β-trace protein (β-TP) as a marker for PLF fistula.

Damage and functional recovery of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) inner ear hair cells following local injection of gentamicin.

This study addresses the ultrastructural and functional damage and subsequent recovery of the inner ear in the Atlantic cod following intrasaccular gentamicin injection. Inner ear damage was assessed using SEM and measurements of AEP following 250-Hz pure-tone stimuli. Data from gentamicin-treated fish were compared with control (no injection) and sham (injection of saline) fish.

[Rock music and hearing disorders].

Background: Continued exposition to loud noise is a well-known risk factor for development of various hearing disorders; rock musicians are especially vulnerable. The aim of this paper was to get an overview of hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis among rock musicians.

Material And Method: Medline was systematically searched, using combinations of the terms "hearing", "rock music", "tinnitus" and "hyperacusis".

Presbyacusis-hearing thresholds and the ISO 7029.

The purpose of this study was to analyse the changes in pure-tone hearing thresholds with age. We studied a random sample of 232 elderly subjects with a battery of audiological tests, including pure-tone audiometry in the conventional and extended high-frequency range, using the normative distributions from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard 7029 for comparison. Sixty otologically normal (ON) subjects were selected for comparative analysis with the unscreened (US) sample, and for description of gender and age group differences.

Cortical cognitive potentials in elderly persons.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes in the acoustically evoked cortical cognitive potentials N 200, P 300, and N 3 with age. There were 232 participants, who were 60 years or older, and each was examined using a battery of audiological tests including a questionnaire, otomicroscopy, pure-tone audiometry, and cortical cognitive potentials, measured at Fz using an auditory oddball paradigm. N 200 was elicited in 46.

The aging ear: an otomicroscopic and tympanometric study.

Objectives: To analyze changes in tympanometric measures with age and to study some otitis-related issues in the elderly (> or = 60 years) population.

Material And Methods: The study was designed as a combination of a cross-sectional survey and a controlled study. We studied a random sample of 232 elderly subjects using an extended battery of audiological tests, including pure-tone audiometry.

Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions in the elderly.

The purpose of this study was to analyse the changes in transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) with age. We studied 232 subjects above 60 years of age with a battery of audiological tests, including TEOAEs Our criterion for the presence of TEOAEs was based on a cut-off at overall wave reproducibility 55% or overall response level 4 dB SPL. The prevalence of TEOAEs in left ears was 55.