Deafness: Causes & Reasons - Symptoma South Africa

Possible Causes for Deafness

Initially, deafness maybe there only for low frequencies. [symptoma.com]

[…] is a disabling disorder resulting in repeated violent attacks of dizziness, ringing in the ear and hearing loss that can last for hours and can ultimately cause permanent deafness [cuanschutztoday.org]

Neural damage especially sensorineural deafness for low frequencies, tinnitus and aural fullness occur. [symptoma.com]

Presbycusis

Deafness is the complete inability to hear sound. Deafness and hearing loss have many causes and can occur at any age. [bodyandhealth.canada.com]

Danish Horetab aldersbetinget Dutch Presbyacusis English age related hearing loss, Age-related hearing loss, Presbyacusia, PRESBYACUSIS, Presbycuses, Presbycusis, Senile deafness [66.199.228.237]

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, presbycusis is the loss of hearing that gradually occurs in most individuals as they grow [agingcare.com]

Congenital Deafness

Congenital deafness is either genetically caused or acquired in utero through maternal lifestyle and/or infection. [symptoma.com]

DbPre-lingual deafnessPost-lingual deafness 20. [slideshare.net]

Deaf students performed as well as hearing students on two complex, standardized spatial tasks. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Susac Syndrome

It is clinically characterized by a typical triad of sensorineural deafness, encephalopathy, and visual defect, due to microangiopathy involving the brain, inner ear, and [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Susac Syndrome is a rare disease characterized by encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusion and sensorineural deafness. [clinicaltrials.gov]

Acoustic Trauma

Homepage Rare diseases Search Search for a rare disease Acute sensorineural hearing loss by acute acoustic trauma or sudden deafness or surgery induced acoustic trauma Summary [orpha.net]

Homepage Rare diseases Search Search for a rare disease Acute sensorineural hearing loss by acute acoustic trauma or sudden deafness or surgery induced acoustic trauma ORPHA [orpha.net]

[…] workers, and those who hammer out old oil drums for roofs and fences are subject to a level of noise which causes progressive high-frequency hearing loss and eventually deafness [encyclopedia.uia.org]

Wolfram Syndrome

Several other features are observed in patients including deafness, ataxia, and peripheral neuropathy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Neuropathy Thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia, diabetes and deafness Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 5 Deafness, Dystonia [diapedia.org]

Cinchonism

[…] cinchonism * * * cin·cho·nism 'siŋ-kə-.niz-əm, 'sin-chə- n a disorder due to excessive or prolonged use of cinchona or its alkaloids and marked by temporary deafness, ringing [medicine.academic.ru]

— Poisoning by cinchona, quinine, or quinidine; characterized by tinnitus, headache, deafness, and occasionally, anaphylactoid shock. [translate.academic.ru]

[…] cinchonism [sin´ko-nizm] toxicity due to overdosage of cinchona alkaloids; symptoms are tinnitus and slight deafness, photophobia and other visual disturbances, mental dullness [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Sensorineural Hearing Impairment

[…] hearing disorder Alternative Titles: nerve deafness, sensorineural hearing loss, sensorineural impairment Learn about this topic in these articles: deaf-blindness In deaf-blindness [britannica.com]

Not all cases of sudden deafness are idiopathic. More than 50 different causes of sudden deafness have been described. [masseyeandear.org]

National Foundation for the Deaf website. Helpful resources. www.nfd.org.nz/helpfulresources. Accessed October 23, 2018. [medlineplus.gov]

Otosclerosis

Profound deafness has received increasing attention in recent years, largely because of the availability of cochlear implants. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In majority of cases the deafness is conductive in nature. The deafness will not be noticed by the patient till the loss reaches 30 dB level. [drtbalu.co.in]

Cochlear otosclerosis: The foci involves the cochlea causing sensorineural deafness. [drtbalu.com]

Herpes Zoster Oticus

Infranuclear facial palsy and sensorineural deafness were also present. [semanticscholar.org]

The 59 years old male patient referred to the clinic with diplopia, deafness, disphagia and hoarseness after herpes zoster oticus infection. [tjn.org.tr]

Impacted Cerumen

Impacted cerumen was seen causing the deafness. Removal of cerumen or ear wax was done using ear curette. [youtube.com]

The symptoms usually include sudden deafness. The wax is easily removed by a physician. [britannica.com]

Differential diagnosis Other causes of acute deafness - eg, Eustachian tube dysfunction, foreign body. Otitis externa. [patient.info]

Lermoyez Syndrome

Lermoyez nasal punch Lermoyez syndrome - increasing deafness interrupted by a sudden attack of dizziness after which the hearing improves. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

A dictionary of medical eponyms Related people Marcel Emile Joseph Lermoyez A variant of Ménière’s syndrome characterised by attacks of tinnitus and diminished hearing/deafness [whonamedit.com]

Acoustic Neuritis

Gerlier disease - a paroxysmal attack of severe vertigo, not accompanied by deafness or tinnitus, due to unilateral vestibular dysfunction. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Some ear disorders can result in hearing disorders and deafness. [icdlist.com]

Nail-patella syndrome Nails-only DDEB NAIT Naito-Oyanagi disease Najjar syndrome Nakagawa angioblastoma Nakajo-Nishimura syndrome Nakamura-Osame syndrome NALD NAM Nance deafness [orpha.net]

MELAS Syndrome

Inner ear deafness is often the cause of sensorineural hearing loss associated with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy. However, retrocochlear deafness may also be a cause. [jstage.jst.go.jp]

Central deafness is only rarely reported. We report here an 11-year-old boy with MELAS syndrome who presented with subacute deafness after waking up from sleep. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Both have a maternally-inherited neurosensory deafness and insulin-dependent T2DM. A renal biopsy was performed in both patients. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Temporal Bone Fracture

We report a case of bilateral pneumolabyrinth presenting as sudden, bilateral deafness, without temporal bone fracture, after a fall. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Now present with right side Facial nerve palsy and Deafness. [neuroradiologycases.com]

We present an obscure case of a man who was struck in the ear by a flying fish while wading in the sea with resulting temporal bone fracture, sudden deafness, vertigo, cerebrospinal [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Acoustic Neuroma

The authors report a case of sudden deafness with unilateral tinnitus. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

(National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) Also in Spanish NIDCD Glossary (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders) [medlineplus.gov]

a nonmalignant usually slow-growing tumor involving the Schwann cells of a vestibular nerve that may cause deafness, tinnitus, and disturbance of the sense of balance and [merriam-webster.com]

Suppurative Labyrinthitis

ACQUIRED MEASLES DEAFNESS -Rubeola virus causes measles -impt cause of acquired deafness. [ent.com.au]

Eight (57%) individuals became deaf, while six (43%) acquired mixed hearing loss. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Child 326 Aetiology and Pathology of Childhood Deafness 328 Postnatal Causes 329 Risk Factors for Hearing Loss in Children 330 Monitoring of Special Groups 331 Clinical Examination [books.google.de]

Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder

The clinical course tends to be progressive and includes dementia, cortical blindness, cortical deafness, spastic hemiplegia, and pseudobulbar palsy. [icd9data.com]

Signs and symptoms include dementia, cortical deafness and blindness, pseudobulbar palsy, and hemiplegia. (NCI Thesaurus) ALSO IN ENCYCLOPEDIA : [tititudorancea.com]

Signs and symptoms include dementia, cortical deafness and blindness, pseudobulbar palsy, and hemiplegia Applies To Balo's concentric sclerosis Encephalitis periaxialis: concentrica [icd9data.com]

Treacher-Collins Syndrome

Abstract Bilateral conductive deafness is common in mandibulofacial dysostosis with or without atresia of the external auditory meatus. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Treatment includes correction of the deafness by use of a hearing aid or by surgical construction of an ear canal and, sometimes, plastic surgery to enlarge the jaw. [britannica.com]

This deafness is due to a wide range of deformities of the ossicular chain associated with a characteristic reduction in the size of the middle ear cavity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Alport Syndrome

Epstein CJ, Sahud MA, Piel CF, Goodman JR, Bernfield MR, Kushner JH, Ablin AR (1972) Hereditary macrothrombocytopathia, nephritis and deafness. [link.springer.com]

A fourth kindred displaying the triad of hereditary nephritis, deafness and thrombocytopenia with giant platelets is described. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

About 50% of male patients with X-linked Alport syndrome show sensorineural deafness by age 25 years, and about 90% are deaf by age 40 years. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Salicylate Poisoning

(mg/kg) Serum Level (mg/dL) Estimated Severity Clinical Features Minimal GIT intolerance, bleeding Hypersensitivity Acute gout 150-300 40-110 Mild-to-moderate Tinnitus, deafness [emedsa.org.au]

GI: Nausea Vomiting Epigastric pain Hematemesis Pulmonary: Tachypnea Noncardiogenic pulmonary edema CNS: Tinnitus Deafness Delirium Seizures Coma In suspected overdose settings [5minuteconsult.com]

[…] toxicity: acid-base disturbance, uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, disordered glucose metabolism aspirin CLINICAL FEATURES nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, tinnitus deafness [lifeinthefastlane.com]

Labyrinthine Fistula

Surgically-induced deafness occurred in 3.3 per cent. All surgical groups showed similar hearing results, except for less conductive deafness in the CAT group. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Surgery that was performed against established rules caused deafness in three ears. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

No patient presented with surgery-related deafness postoperatively. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 1 H

[…] lerz ] the prototypical form of mucopolysaccharidosis, with a gargoyle-like face, dwarfism, severe somatic and skeletal changes, severe mental retardation, cloudy corneas, deafness [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Symptoms include: Abnormalities in facial features Clawed hands Deafness Cloudy corneas Progressive mental retardation Joint disease Heart value problems Abnormal spine bones [de.slideshare.net]

Affected individuals exhibit severe mental retardation, clouding of the corners of the eyes, deafness, hirsutism (hairiness), enlarged liver and spleen, dwarfism with hunched [britannica.com]

Krabbe Disease

It affects infants and is characterized by intellectual disability, paralysis, blindness, deafness, and pseudobulbar palsy, progressing to death. [msdmanuals.com]

It can cause: Blindness Deafness Severe problems with muscle tone The disease is usually life-threatening. [nlm.nih.gov]

Krabbe disease is a sphingolipidosis, an inherited disorder of metabolism, that causes intellectual disability, paralysis, blindness, deafness, and pseudobulbar palsy, progressing [msdmanuals.com]

Bromate Poisoning

This report of potassium bromate poisoning and its resultant deafness and renal failure further emphasizes the curious relationship between these two organ systems. [experts.umn.edu]

The spectrum of bromate (BrO 3 - ) toxicity is different from bromide (Bγ) and includes the induction of ARF and deafness. [karger.com]

Cite this Apa Standard Harvard Vancouver BIBTEX RIS @article{11676312234945ed831ee53506b8303d, title = "Deafness and Renal Failure Due to Potassium Bromate Poisoning", abstract [experts.umn.edu]

Mumps

Good outcomes have been reported regarding the use of cochlear implants for mumps deafness. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The diagnosis was made according to the criteria for diagnosis of mumps deafness determined by the Acute Profound Deafness Committee set up by the Ministry of Health and Welfare [doi.org]

Uncommon complications such as orchitis, oophoritis, deafness, pancreatitis, aseptic meningitis, and encephalitis occur more often in adults. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Internal Auditory Artery Occlusion

Bilateral sudden deafness as a prodrome of anterior inferior cerebellar artery infarction. Arch Neurol 2001;58:1287-1289. 24. [j-stroke.org]

He was first diagnosed with right-sided sudden deafness. [omicsonline.org]

With conduction deafness, sound transmits best to the side of the deafness. [dartmouth.edu]

Paget Disease of the Bone

The usual features of Paget's disease of bone, e.g. large head, deafness due to involvement of the 8th cranial nerve and bowing of the legs are all well described in text [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

These disorders feature high bone turnover, deafness during early childhood, "idiopathic external lysis" of adult teeth, and sometimes focal lesions in appendicular bones [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The most common neurological complication is deafness arising from involvement of the petrous temporal bone. [mja.com.au]

Alstrom Syndrome

Total blindness and deafness are likely to develop. Did you find this information useful? [patient.info]

Total blindness and deafness are likely to develop. [patient.info]

It is characterized by retinal pigment degeneration, obesity, sensorineural deafness, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, progressive chronic nephropathy, cardiomyopathy [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Familial Paget Disease of Bone

Beethoven’s deafness. Journal of the American Medical Association 1970 ; 213: 434 – 437. Google Scholar | Crossref 31. Shearer, PD. [doi.org]

The most common neurological complication is deafness arising from involvement of the petrous temporal bone. [mja.com.au]

0304-324X (Print) eISSN: 1423-0003 (Online) For additional information: https://www.karger.com/GER Abstract The usual features of Paget’s disease of bone, e.g. large head, deafness [doi.org]