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Auditory steady-state responses to multiple simultaneous stimuli in children with functional or sensorineural hearing loss

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The goal of our study was to identify the role of auditory steady-state responses for hearing assessment in patients with functional hearing loss. The study design was to compare auditory steady-state response thresholds and standard pure-tone audiometry thresholds between patients with functional or sensorineural hearing loss. Subjects comprised 16 patients (24 ears) with functional hearing loss and 17 patients (24 ears) with sensorineural hearing loss. Differences and correlations between auditory steady-state response thresholds and standard pure-tone audiometry thresholds at 500, 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000 Hz were evaluated. In children with functional hearing loss, pure-tone audiometry thresholds and auditory steady-state response thresholds were significantly different at all frequencies and were not significantly correlated. In patients with sensorineural hearing loss, pure-tone audiometry thresholds and auditory steady-state response thresholds did not differ significantly at any frequencies and were significantly correlated. Auditory steady-state responses may have principal role in the assessment of auditory brainstem acuity, particularly at low frequencies in patients with functional hearing loss.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Miss Rie Nagayasu for her assistance. This work was supported in part by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

    Shin Kariya, Kunihiro Fukushima, Akihiro Kawasaki, Yuko Kataoka & Kazunori Nishizaki

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Kariya, S., Fukushima, K., Kawasaki, A. et al. Auditory steady-state responses to multiple simultaneous stimuli in children with functional or sensorineural hearing loss. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 265, 769–773 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-007-0550-3

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