New Instruments for the Management of Cochlear Implantation in an Individual with a Fracture of the Temporal Bone and Cochlear Ossification by Antonio Frisina, Francesco Seno, Gionata Conni

“…These were used to successfully treat a case of total deafness caused by a fracture in the temporal bone complicated with ossification of the basal turn of the cochlea. …”
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Dr. Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) and his nervous disease by A. Ulytė, E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“…Basanavičius suffered from various episodic ailments – headache, insomnia, deafness, olfactory and gustatory impairments, cardiac arrhythmias, leg pain, paraesthesias, and urinary disorders which he attributed to neurasthenia. …”
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Identification of TMPRSS3 as a Significant Contributor to Autosomal Recessive Hearing Loss in the Chinese Population by Xue Gao, Sha-Sha Huang, Yong-Yi Yuan, Jin-Cao Xu, Ping Gu, Dan Bai, Dong-Yang Kang, Ming-Yu Han, Guo-Jian Wang, Mei-Guang Zhang, Jia Li, Pu Dai

“…Mutations in the TMPRSS3 (transmembrane protease, serine 3) gene cause prelingual (DFNB10) or postlingual (DFNB8) deafness. In our previous study, three pathogenic mutations in TMPRSS3 were identified in one Chinese family. …”
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Mammalian Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration and Ribbon Synapse Reformation by Xiaoling Lu, Yilai Shu, Mingliang Tang, Huawei Li

“…Recent approaches of HCs regeneration provide new directions for finding the treatment of sensor neural deafness. To have normal hearing function, the regenerated HCs must be reinnervated by nerve fibers and reform ribbon synapse with the dendrite of spiral ganglion neuron through nerve regeneration. …”
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Alzheimer’s Disease as a Result of Stimulus Reduction in a GABA-A-Deficient Brain: A Neurocomputational Model by Mariana Antonia Aguiar-Furucho, Francisco Javier Ropero Peláez

“…Several research studies point to the fact that sensory and cognitive reductions like cataracts, deafness, macular degeneration, or even lack of activity after job retirement, precede the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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Genetics of Nonsyndromic Congenital Hearing Loss by Oguz Kadir Egilmez, M. Tayyar Kalcioglu

“…Nonsyndromic HL can be categorised by mode of inheritance, such as autosomal dominant (called DFNA), autosomal recessive (DFNB), mitochondrial, and X-linked (DFN). To date, 125 deafness loci have been reported in the literature: 58 DFNA loci, 63 DFNB loci, and 4 X-linked loci. …”
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A severe case of cardiospondylocarpofacial syndrome with a novel MAP3K7 variant by Hiromi Nyuzuki, Junichi Ozawa, Keisuke Nagasaki, Yosuke Nishio, Tomoo Ogi, Jun Tohyama, Takeshi Ikeuchi

“…Abstract Cardiospondylocarpofacial syndrome (CSCFS) is a congenital malformation characterized by growth retardation, facial features, short toes with carpal and tarsal fusion, extensive posterior neck vertebral fusion, congenital heart disease, and deafness. Here, we report a severe case of CSCFS with a novel variant, p.Thr187Ile, in MAP3K7. …”
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Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on the hearing organ by Jan Piotrowski, Bianka Nowińska, Izabela Hądzlik

“…Among other otologic dysfunctions associated with COVID-19 are mild to profound, unilateral and bilateral hearing impairment, complete permanent deafness, tinnitus and otalgia. Otologic symptoms may coexist with other COVID-19 infection symptoms or may be an isolated manifestation of the disease. …”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Tribes dramatizes the ways in which the cultural understanding and treatment of disability shape and regulate the embodied experiences of the disabled character within the confines of home. Billy’s deafness is ignored by his family members, who do not acknowledge the existence of the deaf community, sign language, and deaf culture. …”
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Osteopetrosis and Its Relevance for the Discovery of New Functions Associated with the Skeleton by Amélie E. Coudert, Marie-Christine de Vernejoul, Maurizio Muraca, Andrea Del Fattore

“…Patients typically displayed spontaneous fractures, anemia, and in the most severe forms hepatosplenomegaly and compression of cranial facial nerves leading to deafness and blindness. Osteopetrosis comprises a heterogeneous group of diseases as several forms are known with different models of inheritance and severity from asymptomatic to lethal. …”
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Penggunaan Tetes Telinga Serum Autologous dengan Amnion untuk Penutupan Perforasi Membran Timpani by Hidayatul Fitria, Yan Edward

“…One cause of deafness that often met is middle ear inflammation, especially those with persistent tympanic membrane perforation. …”
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Original Solution for Middle Ear Implant and Anesthetic/Surgical Management in a Child with Severe Craniofacial Dysmorphism by Giovanni Bianchin, Lorenzo Tribi, Aronne Reverzani, Patrizia Formigoni, Valeria Polizzi

“…We describe the novel solution adopted in positioning middle ear implant in a child with bilateral congenital aural atresia and craniofacial dysmorphism that have posed a significant challenge for the safe and correct management of deafness. A five-year-old child, affected by a rare congenital disease (Van Maldergem Syndrome), suffered from conductive hearing loss. …”
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Early Hearing-Impairment Results in Crossmodal Reorganization of Ferret Core Auditory Cortex by M. Alex Meredith, Brian L. Allman

“…Numerous investigations of cortical crossmodal plasticity, most often in congenital or early-deaf subjects, have indicated that secondary auditory cortical areas reorganize to exhibit visual responsiveness while the core auditory regions are largely spared. …”
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8q22.2q22.3 Microdeletion Syndrome Associated with Hearing Loss and Intractable Epilepsy by Alejandra Rincon, Paola Paez-Rojas, Fernando Suárez-Obando

“…We describe a female with developmental delay, microcephaly, epilepsy, severe short stature, impaired speech, facial dysmorphism, and congenital deafness. A minimal/maximal deletion of 5.238 Mb and 5.374Mb, respectively, at 8q22.2q22.3 was diagnosed using a genome-wide array. …”
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Relationship of Determined Risk Factors with Hearing Disorders in Children by Oziel González Milián, María Felicia Casanova González, Yaima Figueredo Montes de Oca

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> studying risk factors, which contribute to the appearance of deafness, is a need so that prophylactic and preventive control can be developed during the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal periods.…”
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Prevalence of Middle Ear Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Children under 5 Years in Gasabo District of Kigali City, Rwanda by Kaitesi Batamuliza Mukara, Richard J. Lilford, Debara Lyn Tucci, Peter Waiswa

“…Middle ear infections are common in children, and delay in diagnosis and treatment may result in complications such as delays in speech and language development and deafness. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and care seeking behaviour for middle ear infections in children under five years in Kigali city. …”
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Atypical Cogan's Syndrome by João Queirós, Sofia Maia, Mariana Seca, António Friande, Maria Araújo, Angelina Meireles

“…The atypical ocular and audiovestibular manifestations make the diagnosis difficult, delaying the institution of appropriate therapy which may result in profound bilateral deafness.…”
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Genetic Etiology Study of Ten Chinese Families with Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss by Songqun Hu, Feifei Sun, Jie Zhang, Yan Tang, Jinhong Qiu, Zhixia Wang, Luping Zhang

“…In this report, we aimed to disclose the genetic causes of the subjects from the ten Chinese deaf families who did not have pathogenic common genes/mutation. …”
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Effect of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Treatment in a Patient with Short Stature Associated with the Ring Chromosome 17 Syndrome by Gustavo Tempone Cardoso Penna, Gabriela de Rezende Lelot, Ana Luiza de Rezende Lelot, Juliana Greghi Hernandez, Carolina Costa Figueiredo, Nara Michelle de Araujo Evangelista, Vania de Fatima Tonetto Fernandes, Guido de Paula Colares Neto

“…A ten-year-old male scholar had moderate left conductive deafness, left kidney hypoplasia with hypertension, epilepsy, malformations in hands, feet, and abdomen, and disproportionately short stature. …”
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Influential publications in sudden hearing loss: a bibliometric and visual synopsis of the top 100 cited articles by Xueshi Di, Junjie Liang, Xinru Wang, Xue Bai, Chongyang Zhang, Ting Pan, Tiantian He, Peng Bai

“…Key themes identified include treatment options for SHL, with prominent keywords such as deafness, therapy, and dexamethasone.ConclusionThis study identified the highly cited literature in SHL research, revealing a primary focus on treatment options. …”
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