Audiology education was established in 1968 under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Nazmi Hoşal, at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, affiliated to Hacettepe University Postgraduate Education Faculty in our country. The master's education, which was carried out as the Audiology program at Hacettepe University until 1989, was continued as the "Audiology and Speech Disorders" Master's and Doctorate program after 1989 with the program change.
Hearing losses are closely related to the psychological, cognitive, and academic abilities of people. Among hearing losses, sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is more difficult to treat than conductive hearing loss. In addition, despite today's technological advances, treatment is still not fully possible. Personal sound amplification products (PSAP) are currently indicated for patients with conductive hearing loss or mild to moderate SNHL. It is indicated cochlear implants (CI) for patients with advanced
Vestibular migraine (VM) is a clinical condition characterized by dizziness, nausea, and imbalance, often accompanied by migraine-related headache. Although it started to be noticed many years ago, after objective diagnostic criterias, it emerges as a disease whose importance is increasing day by day in the etiology of vertigo. The pathophysiology of this disease, which concerns about 1% of the population, is not yet clearly known.
Newborn hearing screening programs are an application that gives individuals with hearing loss the chance to learn in a natural auditory way and to improve their speech development as soon as possible. Hearing loss comes along with many deficiencies. Receptive and expressive language disorders negatively affect areas such as language-related learning disorders, speech disorders, social communication, academic achievement, and cognitive development. National newborn hearing screening programs in our country Turkey are newborn hearing screening and school age hearing screenings.
Hearing loss, which is one of the most common congenital health problems in children, affects approximately 3 of every 1000 newborns in the world. The first three years of life are critical for the development of language and speech skills. Therefore, early diagnosis and early intervention are extremely important for normal language and speech development, especially in young children. The critical age for early diagnosis and early intervention is 6 months and earlier. Speech, language, communication and academic skills of babies with congenital hearing loss who are diagnosed and started education before 6 months of age increase rapidly and become better than their peers with hearing loss around the age of 3 years. Although the results of the research conducted in our country show that there are important developments in early diagnosis and early intervention in our country, it is seen that we have not yet reached the ideal amplification and educational age emphasized by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing.
Hemodynamic and hemorhelogic features of blood flow is crucial for tissue perfusion. Cochlear micro-circulation is very important for ion/ fluid balance of cochlea, glucose and nutrient supply, and disposal of waste products. Blood viscosity as basic determinant of blood flow is effected from plasma viscosity (PV), hematocrit, erythrocyte deformability, and aggregations of erythroctes, leukocytes and thrombocytes. PV is under the effect of plasma proteins as primarily fibrinogen and lipids. Endothelium that constitutes an inter-face between vessel wall and blood is stimulated from hemodynamic and hemorheological alterations.
Otosclerosis is a disease characterized by a new bone formation localized to the otic capsule. It causes progressive conductive, sensorineural or mixed type hearing loss.
The diagnosis of otosclerosis can be made by a detailed history, physical examination, and odiometric evaluation. The treatment of choice is stapes surgery who did not accept using hearing aids. Stapedotomy and stapedectomy represent surgical procedures for managing the conductive hearing loss caused by otosclerosis.
Pathologies like trauma, surgical manupulation or cholesteatoma can impair ossicular chain continuity in middle ear. Besides fixation in ossicules also effects sound transmission. If sound couldn’t transmit to the inner ear by ossicules, conductive hearing loss occurs. The aim of ossicular chain reconstruction is to eliminate conductive hearing loss by providing ossicular chain continuity and mobility. Otografts or allografts can be preferred for the aim of ossicular continuity. This choice may change according to surgeon experience and conditions of the institution. It is important to prevent complications during intraoperative and postoperative period.
Aim: The aim of the study is to compare the effectiveness of systemic steroid and systemic steroid + intratympanic steroid treatment in sudden hearing loss.
Material and Method: The files of the patients that diagnosed sudden idiopathic sudden hearing loss from January 2018 to January 2021 and whose treatment was started before 10th day of the hearing loss were reviewed retrospectively. The patients were divided into two groups; those using systemic steroids and those using systemic steroids + intratympanic steroids. Pre-treatment audiograms and audiograms at least 1 month after the treatment were evaluated. Findings were analyzed statistically.
Aim: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of dizziness in community. Trauma, vascular damage and inflammation of the head and neck region may have a role in the etiopathogenesis of BPPV. The aim of this study is to reveal the relationship between hematological parameters showing systemic inflammation and vascular damage with BPPV.
Introduction: Carbon monoxide-(CO) is a colorless, odorless and non-irritating gas absorbed from the lung. CO binds to hemoglobin in the blood with an affinity of 200 times greater than oxygen, forming a carboxyhemoglobin-(COHb) complex, thus reducing the release of oxygen to tissues and causing tissue hypoxia and ultimately neurological symptoms.
In the literature, the clinic of sensorineural hearing loss due to acute or chronic CO poisoning has been described. Although hearing loss is generally bilateral sensorineural, there are also publications reporting unilateral hearing loss. In our article, we report the clinic and the treatment approaches of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss due to acute CO poisoning in a 22-year-old male patient.
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) is an Otorhinolaryngology emergency. Many factors such as viral infections, autoimmunity and stress are blamed in its etiology. Cranial neuropathies such as anosmia and facial nerve palsy caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus, whose neurotropic and neuroinvasive properties are known, have been reported. It is thought that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose effects on nerve degeneration have been shown in many studies, may cause hearing loss through cochleitis, neuritis and immune reaction mechanism. In this period of the COVID-19 pandemic, a case with sudden hearing loss secondary to COVID-19 is presented. A 40-year-old female patient who presented with sudden onset hearing loss and tinnitus in the week following the symptoms of COVID-19, achieved a total recovery in the symptoms of COVID-19 and Sudden Hearing Loss with medical treatment.
