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Volume 37 #4

Contents

  1. Тhe role of auditory feedback in voice control with normal and impaired hearing
  2. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Sound Sources Localization by Distance in Hearing Pathology
  3. Hearing perception by cochlear implantation
  4. Development of methodological approaches to assess the functional state of the inner ear labyrinth
  5. Features of speech signal recognition in conditions of vocal competition with normal hearing and with hearing or speech disorders
  6. Рsychoacoustic testing to assess the functional maturation of the central audiotory system
  7. Difficulties of Cochlear implantation in malformations of the inner ear

Development of methodological approaches to assess the functional state of the inner ear labyrinth

© 2023 L. V. Toropchina

FBSEI APE Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of Russia 125993 Moscow, st. Barrikadnaya, 2/1, building 1, Russia

Received 05 Apr 2023

Modeling the propagation of sound vibrations from the foot plate of the stirrup in the oval window to the perceiving formations of the organ of Corti is a difficult experimental problem. In the search for the causes of hearing loss, tone threshold audiometry has traditionally been considered as the basis of diagnosis. The presence of an air-bone gap on an audiogram was associated with a dysfunction of the middle ear; however, in many cases, an air-bone gap is detected when the pathology is localized in the structures of the inner ear. The review shows that pathological conditions that impair intracochlear sound conduction are successfully detected using computed tomography of the temporal bones. The classification of pathological conditions of the labyrinth, giving the bone-air gap on the tone threshold audiogram, was performed.

Key words: conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, sound conduction, sound perception, intracochlear sound conduction, air-bone gap, tone threshold audiometry, malformations of the inner ear, computed tomography of the temporal bones

DOI: 10.31857/S023500922304008X  EDN: QZEBIS

Cite: Toropchina L. V. Razvitie metodicheskikh podkhodov dlya otsenki funktsionalnogo sostoyaniya labirinta vnutrennego ukha [Development of methodological approaches to assess the functional state of the inner ear labyrinth]. Sensornye sistemy [Sensory systems]. 2023. V. 37(4). P. 330–341 (in Russian). doi: 10.31857/S023500922304008X

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