Sentence examples for conductive deafness from inspiring English sources
Presentation is most commonly with an upper cervical mass but pain, conductive deafness, sinus problems or cranial nerve palsies can also bring the child to medical attention.
Tgif1 homozygous mutant mice have significantly raised auditory thresholds due to a conductive deafness arising from a chronic effusion starting at around 3 weeks of age.
Audiological abnormalities usually consist of conductive deafness early in the course of the disease but as the child ages a sensorineural element appears and most patients have combined deafness once the disease is fully established [ 29].
Townes Brocks syndrome is caused by mutation in the putative zinc finger transcription factor gene SALL1 in chr 16q and the features include thumb malformations [ 23, 24 ], dysplastic ear, URA, conductive deafness and imperforate anus.
About 17% of them showed also conductive deafness, but it has been demonstrated that part of patients with p63 mutations are also affected by mild sensorineural deafness, most likely related to the impairment of the Notch pathway due to the loss of activity of mutant p63 [ 17].
This form of deafness can be identified in pups from about six weeks of age, and should be differentiated from sensorineural deafness due to degeneration of the auditory pathway, which usually occurs later in life, and from conductive deafness associated with aural pathology or chronic infection.
During the hearing test, I heard only thirty per cent of the clicks, bells, and words — I apparently had nerve- and bone-conductive deafness.
In most patients there is a mixture of both conductive and sensorineural deafness [ 22].
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The Bonebridge (BB) (Med-EL; Innsbruck, Austria) is another feasible option for children at age of 5 years and above who have conductive, mixed hearing loss or single-sided deafness with bone conduction thresholds at 45 dBHL or better at 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 kHz.
Mutations in the human POU3F4 coding unit leads to X-linked deafness type 3 (DFN3), characterized by conductive hearing loss and progressive sensorineural deafness.
