4 results about "Audiometry" patented technology

<ul><li>Speech discrimination helps to diagnose conductive hearing losses.</li><li>Speech discrimination scores are variable in sensorineural losses.</li><li>Poor speech discrimination (75% or less) can indicate retrocochlear disease.</li><li>The conductive hearing loss may be a result of obstruction due to wax or middle ear problems such as infection, tumor, fixation of the ossicles (otosclerosis), and congenital diseases.</li><li>Sensorineural hearing loss (cochlear or eighth nerve damage) may be a result of conditions such as noise trauma, otologic effects of aging (presbycusis), ototoxic drugs, trauma, Ménière's disease, hyperlipidemia, maternal rubella, mumps, meningitis, hereditary syndromes, demyelinating diseases, and tumors affecting the eighth nerve.</li></ul>