...Rashid Sheikh; Hassan Haidar; Hassanin Abdulkarim; Waqar Aslam; Aisha Larem; Ali Alsaadi; Abdulsalam Alqahtani Objective: Ossicular discontinuity may result from chronic suppurative otitis media and is usually detected intraoperatively. Our objective is to determine whether a preoperative audiogram...

... to treat acute tinnitus triggered by glutamate excitotoxicity. An earlier double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase II clinical trial (TACTT0) had demonstrated a significant and dose-dependent improvement in tinnitus triggered by acute acoustic trauma or otitis media from baseline to day 90...

...Mahmood F. Bhutta Otitis media (OM) represents a complex set of clinically defined disease phenotypes. Epidemiological and pathological data suggest that inflammation of the middle ear occurs on a continuum of disease. Here I review epidemiological data and apply mathematical modelling to better...

...Jacob Husseman; Sean D. Palacios; Alexander Z. Rivkin; Heinz Oehl; Allen F. Ryan The middle ear response to otitis media includes transformation and hyperplasia of the mucosal epithelium and subepithelial connective tissue. Significant neovascularization is also noted, which occurs both to support...

...Anne Zumach; Michelene N. Chenault; Lucien J.C. Anteunis; Ellen Gerrits The present study examined the effect of early-life otitis media and its associated fluctuating hearing loss on categorical speech perception in 7-year-old Dutch children. The middle ear status of these children had been...

...Tetsuo Himi; Yasuaki Harabuchi; Tomoko Shintani; Tomo Yamaguchi; Iwao Yoshioka; Akikatsu Kataura We report 10 postlingually deafened adults in whom the electrophysical criteria for cochlear implant were fulfilled, except that they showed the following unfavorable middle ear lesions: otitis media...

... or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Mucopolysaccharidosis II Hearing loss Otitis media Impaired speech development Developmental disorder Hunter syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type II, MPS II) is an X-linked...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hearing loss Deafness Otitis media Sound localization Binaural hearing Masking level difference Backward masking Temporal processing Language impairment Auditory CNS Processing and Plasticity Audiol Neurootol 2001;6:216 220...