DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF RATE AND PRESENTATION OF HEARING LOSS IN DISTRICT HOSPITALHASSAN
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 58
Abstract
BACKGROUND There is not much documenting as of how many hearing loss cases have been reported in district level hospitals in India. Therefore, a study was undertaken to document the patterns of hearing loss who came to the district hospital of Hassan, Karnataka, India over a period of 5 years (between Jan 2012 and Dec 2016). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients who came with the complaints related to ear with hearing loss and willing are all included in this study. All the patients with ear complaints noted with detailed case history and otoscopic examination and basic hearing assessment like Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA), Tympanometry and Otoacoustic Emission (OAE- in case of infant) done to know the rate and presentation of hearing loss. RESULTS Results were analysed in data forms. The mean values were obtained from these data and later converted into percentages across the distribution of the Age, Gender, Causes, Laterality of hearing loss, Type of hearing loss and Degree of hearing loss. In the distribution of different ages, males had higher rates than the females, in the age range 0 - 10 caused highly due to acute otitis media and other age ranges corresponding to different causes. Unilateral hearing loss was higher than the bilateral and mixed type of hearing loss being at the high rate with a degree of hearing loss more at the moderate level. CONCLUSION In this study the patients with hearing disorders with hearing loss had been documented more with presbycusis; it was highest in all the age groups and more with the age of 60 years than the other age groups.
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Vinay Kumar M. V, Belure Gowda P. R, Raghavendra Prasad K. U, Manohar S. R, Fidelis Gracedass A, Lohith P, Rakesh P. G
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- DOI 10.14260/Jemds/2017/936
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