Stapediovestibular ankylosis in an HIV/HCV-copositive patient.

To the best of the author's knowledge, no case of a patient with stapediovestibular ankylosis who was also coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been previously described in the literature. This report describes the case of a 36-year-old woman who was diagnosed with all three conditions. The clinical diagnosis of stapes fixation was based on otoscopic, audiometric, tympanometric, and surgical findings.

Presenting HINT results graphically.

A special supplement of this journal examines the development and applications of the hearing in noise test (HINT). Currently there is no specific manner to plot HINT results, and the specialized software uses a threshold graph with norms or percentiles. We propose a modified radar plot to present HINT data.

Sofia profile plot: a new graphical approach to present the changes of hearing thresholds with time.

After pure-tone audiometry, we have several sequences of threshold values. Usually, a multiple-line plot is used to present and compare data between measurements by overlaying them in a single graph. Calculation of air-bone gap and pure-tone average is widely accepted as an approach to simplify statistical handling of these data.