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PURPOSE: The current study was taken up to estimate the prevalence of Single Sided Deafness (SSD) in a tertiary healthcare hospital in Mumbai. Also to determine the acceptance of Contralateral routing of offside signal (CROS) devices by individuals with SSD. METHOD: A retrospective study design was followed to collect data from September 2020 to September 2022. The data were collected by reviewing the files of the cases diagnosed with Single-Sided Deafness in a tertiary health care hospital in Mumbai. RESULT: The prevalence of SSD was found to be 24% for the given period. It was observed that 50 out of 4456 took a free trial and 2 bought the device. CONCLUSION: The poor acceptance and purchase of CROS are attributed to the cost, and missed benefits of true binaural hearing in localization and hearing in noise. These benefits can be achieved by using CI, however, the cost and fear of surgery refrained the participants. Also, participants were observed to learn great use of communication repair strategies. Therefore, it is required to counsel individuals with SSD for CI and provide knowledge about care for the better with regular audiological follow-up.
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The current study was done to assess the central auditory processing in individuals with Takayasu's Syndrome. The Takayasu Syndrome is a rare disease, hence a case series was conducted with consecutive sampling. In this study, five patients diagnosed with Takayasu's syndrome were evaluated on the central auditory processing tests. The tests were administered using standard operating protocols. It was observed that the score on the dichotic digit test was drastically reduced suggesting difficulty in auditory integration skills in all the participants. There was an observed difficulty in speech perception in noise for all the participants indicating abnormal auditory closure ability. It was concluded that the reduced blood supply to the cortex would have caused a reduction in auditory skills. The current attempts to document the central processing disorder in a rare syndrome. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-023-03733-1.
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Takayasu's Arteritis is defined as inflammatory disease of the large blood vessels with unknown cause mostly affecting the aorta and its main branches. The patients diagnosed with Takayasu's arteritis are reported to have complaint of chronic dizziness. However, literature lacks detailed clinical evaluation of the auditory vestibular function in such patients. The current study documents the findings of auditory and vestibular evaluations in a rare syndrome. It was observed that patients with Takayasu's arteritis had abnormal auditory and vestibular evoked potentials.
