[Microwave therapy in combined rehabilitation of children suffering from chronic neurosensory hypoacusis].

Efficacy of audiovisual therapy in combination with MR therapy on the hearing function was studied in 83 hypoacusis and deaf children at the age 3 to 12 years. A positive effect was registered in 68 of 83 children (81.9%). The response did not correlate with the degree of hearing loss but correlated with the cause of hypoacusis being the least in some causes of hypoacusis. A good effect of microwave therapy was stronger in aquired hypoacusis while it was weaker in congenital and hereditary forms of the disease. Thus, this method can be used in combined treatment of aquired hypoacusis in children.

[Etiology of hypoacusis in children of the Chelyabinsk region in a comparative aspect]. / Etiologiia detskoi tugoukhosti v Cheliabinskoi oblasti v sravnitel'nom aspekte.

The number of children referred to the Chelyabinsk pediatric surdological center in 1998-2001 increased by 1460 (45.74%). This increase occurred primarily because of a rise in the middle ear morbidity. The onset of neurosensory hypoacusis in children became more dependent on abnormalities of pregnancy in their mothers than on pathological delivery. Statistical analysis of the data obtained allows the surdologists to reveal significant causes of the situation and develop priority lines in prophylaxis.