Book chapter
Sensorineural hearing loss: Diagnostic criteria
Occupational Hearing Loss, pp 149-247
2025
Abstract
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is impairment of hearing due to dysfunction of the inner ear (sensory) or acoustic nerve and/or its connections (neural). There are a great many causes of SNHL. There is a common misunderstanding that SNHL cannot be cured or improved. That is incorrect in many cases, particularly when the hearing loss is caused by autoimmune inner-ear disease, Lyme disease, inner-ear syphilis, and many other conditions. It is important to evaluate patients for potentially treatable causes of sensorineural hearing. Those for whom hearing cannot be improved often can be helpful with appropriate amplification.
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- Title
- Sensorineural hearing loss: Diagnostic criteria
- Creators
- Robert Thayer SataloffSkylar DrexelPamela C. Roehm
- Publication Details
- Occupational Hearing Loss, pp 149-247
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Edition
- 4
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Medicine; Otolaryngology (and Head and Neck Surgery)
- Other Identifier
- 991021903867704721