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| Author(s): |
Milaine Dominici Sanfins
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2004-01-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Eliane Schochat;
Alda Cristina Lopes de Carvalho Borges;
Doris Ruthi Lewis
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| Advisor: | Eliane Schochat |
| Abstract | |
Introduction: Auditory Neuropathy/Auditory Dys-synchrony (AN) is a disorder identified only 20 years ago. Due to diagnosis failure, patients with this disorder were diagnosed as hearing impaired. AN diagnosis was made possible upon the appearance of OAE\'s recordings and its presence in hearing evaluation battery. Therefore, it is possible that some individuals who have been diagnosed as suffering from sensorioneural hearing loss had indeed AN. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the type and degree of auditory impairment in a population of the hearing impaired in the city of São Paulo; to verify when parents had the suspicious of the hearing impairment and when was the audiological diagnosis done in these individuals; to identify the subjects whose behavioral evaluations are not compatible with the electrophysiological evaluations in order to identify Auditory Neuropathy events and carry out a qualitative study of the cases of subjects with incompatibility of responses in the behavioral and electrophysiological evaluations. Method: 89 hearing impaired individuals from three school for the deaf in the city of São Paulo, and 11 from the Educational Audiology Division of the Medicine School of the University of São Paulo were evaluated in some audiological tests: imitanciometry, audiometer evaluation (AE), otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR). Results: Out of the 100 subjects in this study, 99% presented a sensorioneural hearing loss, and in 50% the predominant degree of auditory loss was profound, one of the subjects was not able to perform AE. The average age of parents suspicion was 15.52 months and the clinical diagnosis was 25.07 months, in all the groups the parents suspicion was prior to the formal diagnosis. Only one subject presented behavioral evaluations incompatible with the electrophysiological, however, in the course of the research the chart was changed, whereas the hearing fluctuation was the most remarkable factor observed. Conclusions: The results suggest that AN is a rare disorder even in the hearing impaired community and alert the need of long term follow up in the cases of suspected disorder (AU) | |