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18/May/2022
18/May/2022
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2022AO6829
ABSTRACT Objective To analyze age-related changes in the central auditory pathway in healthy elderly individuals. Methods A prospective, quantitative cross-sectional study. The caseload comprised 18 adults (mean age, 22.78 years) and 18 elderly individuals (mean age, 66.72 years) of both sexes, who met inclusion criteria. Subjects were submitted to basic audiological evaluation and related electrophysiologic tests: brainstem auditory evoked potential with click stimulus and frequency-following response. Results Elderly individuals had higher wave and interpeak latencies (waves I, III and V […]
Keywords: Adult; Aging; Electrophysiology; Evoked potentials, auditory; Hearing; Hearing loss
01/Oct/2014
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082014AO3119
Objective To outline the audiological findings of aphasic patients after cerebrovascular accidents. Methods This is a cross-sectional study performed between March 2011 and August 2012 in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Pathology Department of theUniversidade Federal de São Paulo. A total of 43 aphasic subjects (27 men) were referred for audiological evaluation after stroke, with mean age of 54.48 years. Basic audiological evaluation tests were performed, including pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry (speech recognition threshold and word recognition score), immittance […]
Keywords: Aphasia/etiology; Hearing loss; Hearing loss/etiology; sensorineural/etiology; Stroke/complications
01/Apr/2010
01/Apr/2010
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082010AO1569
ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the activities of a multiprofessional outpatient clinic performed by neonatologist, physiatrist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, audiologist and psychologist, who evaluated the development of premature newborns. Methods: Twenty children born at a tertiary-care hospital (São Paulo, Brazil), between April 2006 and April 2007, with birth weight below 1250 g or less than 32 weeks of gestation, were evaluated. The multiprofessional evaluation included assessment of development using the Bayley III scale, at the corrected age of […]
Keywords: Ambulatory care; Child development; Continuity of patient care; Gestational age; Hearing loss; Muscle tonus