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	Sensorineural hearing loss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sensorineural hearing loss is a type of hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the vestibulocochlear nerve (Cranial nerve VIII), the inner ear, or central processing centers of the brain.
		Sudden sensorineural hearing loss is an otologic emergency, and must be treated with a high dose of steroids.
		At present, sensorineural hearing loss is treated with hearing aids, which amplify sounds at pre-set frequencies to overcome a sensorineural hearing loss in that range; or cochlear implants, which stimulate the cochlear nerve directly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sensorineural_hearing_loss (533 words)

	HEARING LOSS: SENSORINEURAL
		This type of loss occurs when there is damage to the structures of the inner ear, or damage to the auditory nerve that sends those impulses from the inner ear to the brain.
		Because hearing loss is often gradual, many adults are not aware of its presence.
		NOISE EXPOSURE is often responsible for loss of hearing, especially in the male population.
	www.dmc.org /health_info/topics/hear4687.html (231 words)

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		SHL has no universally accepted definition, but one useful definition is an idiopathic hearing loss of sensorineural origin, greater than 30 dB in three contiguous frequencies that occurs in less than three days.
		Noury KA, Katsarkas A. Sudden unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: a syndrome or a symptom.
		The implication of viruses in idiopathic sudden hearing loss: primary infection or reactivation of latent viruses?
	www.bcm.edu /oto/grand/111893.html (2474 words)

	Hearing Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sensorineural hearing loss, commonly referred to as "nerve deafness," frequently occurs as a result of the aging process in the form of presbycusis, which is a gradual loss occurring in both ears.
		Sensorineural hearing loss can also be the result of repeated, continuous loud noise exposure, certain toxic medications, or an inherited condition.
		In the case of unilateral sensorineural hearing loss, the tone is heard in the unaffected ear instead.
	www.entcolumbia.org /hearloss.htm (1059 words)

	Sensorineural Hearing Loss
		Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is to be distinguished from:-
		Acceleration of the hearing loss is known to occur with pregnancy, menopause, and with chronic stress reactions associated with major trauma.48 Aggravation by exposure to one of the ototoxic drugs is possible.
		Sensorineural hearing loss is a rare complication following otic barotrauma, and is attributed to rupture of either the stapediovestibular ligament or the round window, with the creation of a perilymph fistula.
	www.medicineau.net.au /clinical/ent/SNHL.html (3889 words)

	Hearing Loss
		The diagnosis of a sensorineural pattern hearing loss is made through audiometry, which shows a significant hearing loss without the "air-bone gap" that is characteristic of conductive hearing disturbances.
		Hearing loss and tinnitus (usually temporary), can also be associated with high doses of aspirin or other ototoxic drugs such as the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
		Neural presbycusis is caused by loss of cochlear neurons.
	www.dizziness-and-balance.com /disorders/hearing/hearing.html (3114 words)

	Sensorineural hearing loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		b) central hearing loss, which is defined as "hearing loss in the presence of normal function of the external ear, middle ear, cochlea and auditory nerve attributable to a disorder affecting the nerve pathways from the auditory nerve to the temporal lobe of the brain, where auditory sensations are represented."
		Sensorineural hearing loss is known to follow closed or penetrating injuries to the skull.
		With brain tumours, sensorineural hearing loss usually occurs with invasion or encroachment of the inner ear or auditory nerve.
	www.medicineau.net.au /clinical/ent/en1471.html (3884 words)

	Sudden Deafness (Feb.1995)
		The intensity of the vertigo roughly correlates with the degree of hearing loss.
		In addition, the severity of the initial hearing loss has some prognostic significance, in that the severity of the hearing loss is inversely proportional to the rate of recovery.
		Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss as a complication of infectious mononucleosis.
	www.utmb.edu /otoref/Grnds/suddendeaf.htm (2717 words)

	Sudden Sensory Neural Hearing Loss
		Autoimmune hearing loss may be associated with or part of systemic autoimmune diseases such as Cogan's syndrome, Wegener’s granulomatosis, polyarteritis nodosa, temporal arteritis, Buerger’s disease (thromboangitis obliterans), and systemic lupus erythomatosis, or may be primary to the inner ear.
		They stratified their patients based on audiogram and found that steroids had a significant effect on the recovery of hearing in patients with hearing loss between 40 and 90 db.
		Steroids have been shown to significantly improve hearing recovery in patients with moderate to severe hearing loss and seem to be favored for the treatment of autoimmune and idiopathic forms of SSNHL.
	www.utmb.edu /otoref/Grnds/SuddenHearingLoss-010613/SSNHL.htm (5496 words)

	Case Study I: Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
		SSHL is described as an abrupt sensorineural hearing loss of 30 dB HL or greater over at least three audiometric frequencies occurring within 72 hours or less.
		The most important of all symptoms are patient reports of sudden hearing loss and the onset or a change in the perception of tinnitus.
		Approximately 90% of the cases are diagnosed as "Sudden Idiopathic Sensorineural Hearing Loss" (SISHL) or unknown cause sensorineural hearing loss.
	www.workplacegroup.net /article-sudden-hearing-loss.htm (1114 words)

	Sudden hearing loss
		Sensorineural hearing loss, more commonly called "nerve deafness," refers to hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea (inner ear) or auditory nerve.
		In general, conductive hearing loss is correctable, while sensorineural hearing loss is often irreversible.
		Thus, the fact that your wife has a total hearing loss which has lasted a year suggests that her loss is most likely permanent.
	www.doctorhoffman.com /xsshl.htm (816 words)

	Sudden Hearing Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This kind of hearing loss is quite common, especially in younger children, but is not normally a serious problem and is certainly not a medical emergency.
		If your hearing loss was less than 90 dB and not limited to the mid-frequencies, then immediate treatment with steroids (within 10 days) has a 78% chance of restoring your hearing (or at least some of it).
		The severity of your hearing loss is inversely proportional to the rate of your recovery.
	www.hearinglosshelp.com /suddenhearingloss.htm (1743 words)

	Hearing: Hearing Loss - Sensorineural
		Sensorineural hearing loss is sometimes called "nerve deafness".
		Neural hearing loss is caused by damage to the nerve that sends these impulses from the inner ear to the brain.
		When present in adults, this loss is often the result of the natural process of aging, noise exposure, disease or injury.
	www.bmhcc.org /health/library/hear4687.asp (275 words)

	Sensorineural hearing loss
		Hearing loss is a common disorder, the incidence of congenital hearing loss being estimated to be 1 in 1,000 births.
		Hearing loss as a feature of mitochondrial disease was first recognized in patients with the Kearns-Sayre, MELAS and MERRF syndromes.
		Presbyacusis, age-related hearing loss, occurs in a moderate form (>25dB loss) in 92% of the population over 60 years of age in the UK, and in a severe form (>45dB loss) in 31% (Davis 1995).
	herkules.oulu.fi /isbn9514268490/html/i231903.html (3625 words)

	Sensorineural Hearing Loss "Nerve Loss" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		If your hearing loss is due primarily to impaired function of the nerve of hearing, you are not likely to lose your hearing completely and become "stone deaf." On the other hand, there is no medicine or surgery which can restore your hearing.
		The nerve of hearing is actually not one nerve but many nerves wound together like a telephone cable to make a single large nerve.
		You need to have your hearing checked at regular intervals, at least once a year or more, to be sure your hearing level is not continuing to drop.
	www.innerear.com /book7.htm (708 words)

	Re: Sensorineural hearing loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The audiologist will be the best person to lead you and your mother to the optimal solution to her hearing and communicative problems.
		All other inquiries related to hearing loss and hearing aids should be posted to the AAC Audiology Question and Answer Section.
		The Audiology Awareness Campaign has no control over the content of such other sites and the replies or messages of individuals who post on the message board and shall not be liable for any damages or injury arising from that content.
	www.audiologyawareness.com /hhelp/qna/archive/index.cgi?read=2542 (515 words)

	Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
		Critical review of the role of neonatal hearing screening in the detection of congenital hearing impairment
		This fact sheet focuses on Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL) or sudden deafness and was updated in March 2003.
		Information is provided on the possible causes and diagnosis of SSHL and ongoing research into SSHL.
	omni.ac.uk /browse/mesh/D006319.html (212 words)

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