Sensory hearing loss

Sensory hearing loss Irreversible hearing loss resulting from damage to the inner ear tissue that translates sound pressure into nerve impulses. 

Toxicity/symptoms nervous system, developmental effects include cerebral palsy-like symptoms with involvement of the visual, sensory, and auditory systems, tingling around lips and mouth, tingling in fingers and toes, vision and hearing loss... 

Saxena AK, Panhotra BR, Naguib M. Sudden irreversible sensory-neural hearing loss in a patient with diabetes receiving amikacin as an antibiotic-heparin lock. Pharmacotherapy... 

Sensory-perceptual disturbance related to hearing loss... 

By 1982, there were 1800 verified human victims of mercury poisoning in a total regional population of 200,000. Symptoms evidenced by human victims included sensory impairment, constriction of visual fields, hearing loss, ataxia, and speech disturbances. Congenital cases were accompanied by disturbance of physical and mental development about 6.0% of babies bom in Minamata had cerebral palsy (vs. 0.5% elsewhere). Some recovery was evident in 1986 as judged by the finding that mercury concentrations in erythrocytes... 

Reed, C. M., Rabinowitz, W.M., Durlach, N.l.etal. 1992. Analytic study of the Tadoma method improving performance through the use of supplementary tactile displays. J. Speech Hear. Res. 35 450. Sataloff, J., Sataloff, R.T., and VassaUo, L.A. 1980. Hearing Loss, 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott. Saunders, F.A., Flill, W.A., and Franklin, B. 1981. A wearable tactile sensory aid for profoundly deaf children. /. Med. Syst. 5 265. 

In this section of the handbook we focus only on applications of rehabilitation engineering. The basic concepts of rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation science, and rehabilitation technology are outlined in Robinson s Chapter 43. Two chapters in this section cover sensory input, and two cover movement or communication output. Gill (Chapter 41) and Remus (Chapter 40) cover sensory rehabilitation or remediation (blindness and low vision, deafness, and hearing loss). Fite s Chapter 42 looks at orthopedic rehabilitation in terms of prosthetics. Hill, Romich, and Vanderheiden (Chapter 47) look at the output side as they explore augmentative and alternative communication systems and their scientific bases. Treffler s Chapter 49 covers concepts involved in the day-to-day provision of rehabilitation technology. 

Sensory systems Hearing Hearing loss can occur after the use of opioids. In a retrospective case series review, bilateral rapidly progressive profound sensorineural deafness and macrocytosis were reported in association with codeine in 10 patients [37 ]. All had a history of long-term codeine use and abuse. The authors proposed that the presence of macrocytosis in all the cases suggested a vascular pathology. 

Sensory systems Hearing A 55-year-old man with confirmed murine typhus developed bilateral hearing loss 9 days after the onset of fever and after taking azithromycin 500mg/day for 3 days [75 ]. The authors postulated that the typhus infection had probably caused the deafness but could not exclude an adverse reaction to azithromycin. 

More than 200 million people around the world suffer from hearing loss, mainly because sensory hair cells in the cochlea have degenerated. The only efficient therapy for patients with profound hearing loss is the CL Improvements in GI performance have increased the average sentence recognition with... 

Sensory systems Hearing loss was attributed to high concentrations of gabapentin in a patient with renal insufficiency [117 ]. 

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