Prevalence of middle ear pathologies in children with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss

The Complexity of Hearing Aid Fitting: Children with Congenital Hearing Loss and Middle Ear Dysfunction

“…The study results show that a large percentage (64%) of the children who were fitted with HAs had an ME pathology in addition to permanent SNHL. The prevalence of a conductive component derived from MEE or AOE in our study was found to be slightly higher than previous studies, where the findings ranged from 26% to 57% [23][24][25]. It is…”

“…Regarding treatment, the number of VT surgeries in this study seems to be slightly higher than what was reported in previous studies. According to these studies [23][24][25], 35-42% of patients diagnosed with MEE or AOE underwent VT surgeries. In our study, the percentage was 55%.…”

“…Das (1990) [23] found that in a group of children aged two to six, diagnosed with SNHL, 93 (57%) had a conductive component. Abou-Elhamd et al (2006) [24] evaluated a wider age range, finding a lower percentage, approximately 30%, when examining the presence of MEE for children aged four-twelve years with SNHL. A more recent study of children from newborn to six years with severe to profound HL, who were candidates for cochlear implant surgery, found similar findings to Abou-Elhamd et al (2006), whereby 26% of the patients had an ME pathology [25].…”

Outcomes of Children with Mild Bilateral Hearing Loss and Unilateral Hearing Loss

“…The outcomes data did not typically include any information about the history of chronic otitis media or mixed hearing loss. A significant proportion of children with bilateral SNHL have multiple disabilities, from 28 to 31% prevalence 37 and a 30 to 40% incidence 38 of chronic otitis media, therefore, a mixed hearing loss. The historical literature on children in the three hearing-loss categories described as ''minimal'' does not typically include development in non-hearing-related areas such as nonverbal cognitive/intellectual development.…”