Sensorineural Hearing Loss - Articles
Hear now. And always.
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Tiffani
... gline fits my daughter, Riley. She has bilateral cochlear implants – the first in October 2003, the second in April 2007. She was diagnosed with severe to profound, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss at 18 months, which is a long way of saying she could hear virtually nothing because of damage to the cochlea in each ear. Today she is 6 and is ex ...
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Sleep Apnea, Hearing Loss, and Thick Blood
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Dr. Steven P.
... s when blood is made thinner by removing some blood and adding some saline.This paper talks about bilateral conditions but also brings up the possibility of unilateral sudden sensorineural hearing loss being explained by this mechanism. It’s in line with my personal observation that every patient that I see with sudden sensorineural hearing loss ha ...
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Hair cells could restore hearing to the deaf
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DeafBlog
... ey will eventually be able to use the cells to perform cell transplants in deaf patients to replace the hair cells and neurons that are damaged in a form of deafness known as sensorineural hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss one of the most common forms of deafness, accounting for 90 per cent of cases and affecting more than 6 million people. ...
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A little history
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Landon's Mom ..
... the newborn hearing screening in the hospital. We went for a repeat OAE at 3 weeks which he also failed. At 5 weeks he had an ABR test which showed he has profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Having no experience with hearing loss, we had no idea what this would mean for our son and began to search for as much information that we could f ...
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My life and random thoughts
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Valerie D.
... t growing up. Here is a bit about how I came to choose Cochlear Implants at age 38. I had rheumatic fever around age 3. It damaged my hearing and heart. My hearing loss is a sensorineural hearing loss. *This means that a Sensorineural hearing loss occurs when there is damage to the inner ear (cochlea) or to the nerve pathways from the inner ear ( ...
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Bilateral CI Hearing Test Results
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Laurie P.
... EVALUATIONPOST BILATERAL COCHLEAR IMPLANTATIONLaurie P. was seen for an evaluation on the above date. Medical history includes congenital genetic severe to profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.She wears two Cochlear New Freedom cochlear implants (CI). Mrs. P. received her first cochlear implant at the left ear in August 2005 and her second ...
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Overjoyed!!!!!!!
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Jennifer T.
... mbered to go back to the BlueCross webpage to check for policy changes. Sure enough, there it was: "POLICYUnilateral or bilateral cochlear implantation for the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss is consideredmedically necessaryif the medical appropriateness criteria are met.(See Medical Appropriateness below.)Any device utilized for this ...
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Can Targeted Brain Therapy Correct Everything?
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Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.
... tex become more sensitized to seeing it. Below researchers at U.C. Davis were able to use software to improve auditory discrimination of phonemes and voices in patients with sensorineural hearing loss - that's right, like age-related or noise-induced hearing loss. Pretty amazing. Because of the wonderful compensatory nature of the brain, as long a ...
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Battling with my Hearing Loss...
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Danielle N.
... at daily basically without people even knowing. My entire hearing loss issue. I really dont know much about it, Im still learning. I do know from what my mom told me I have a Sensorineural hearing loss since birth. That is all I know. It dont help me much. I want to know why and if something is wrong with my ear. Everday,Im trying to learn more abo ...
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