otosclerosis
Otosclerosis is a disease of the middle ear that slowly forms abnormal spongy bone. #+ # The disease results in a conductive hearing loss that, may spread to the inner ear resulting in a sensorineural hearing loss.# Otosclerosis may be caused by infection or a jarring blow to the head.# The sound entering the ear cannot travel across the ossicular chain to the inner ear.# This process occurs so gradually that the person with it often does not know that they have it until someone else calls it to attention. Many people consciously and unconsciously learn to lip read. Signs of a hearing loss may be an inability to hear when someone turns around or asking people to repeat themselves. With otosclerosis a patient may have a conductive hearing loss in one or both ears. A specific sign of otosclerosis may be tinnitus. Tinnitus are a disorder where noises in the ear are perceived. In half the cases of Otosclerosis tinnitus will disappear if treated with surgery. There are many options to treat otosclerosis. Those where it only affects one ear may adapt, though it may be a bit stressful. Some may choose to have a hearing aid fitted. Those people usually have health problems, old or young age, or concerns with surgery. Most people with go
Otosclerosis is inherited. While not everyone who has the abnormal gene will exhibit the disease. Otosclerosis is a dominant genetic trait. Some substantial evidence says, “to get otosclerosis, a person must have the gene and exposure to a certain virus such as measles.” When the patient does not exhibit the symptoms, he or she has histologic otosclerosis, that is found in 1/10 Caucasians. When symptoms occur, it is clinical otosclerosis that is present in 1/10 patients with Histologic otosclerosis. To diagnose this disease, a patient may look to family history, hearing loss pattern, and a CT scan of the temporal bone. A CT scan can be the only way to diagnose otosclerosis early on. Dizziness is reported at 15% of patients in a recent study though, we do not know why it occurs. myringoplasty may be required. Postoperative otitis media frequently follows with a complete hearing loss. Myringotomy and intravenous antibiotics are absolutely necessary early. Perilymph gusher may result when the footplate is removed. When this disease is acquired, the head is elevated while the oval window niche is sealed with tissue graft and prothesis. Permanent hearing loss is likely to follow.#
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Caucasian Asian,
Perforation Tympanic,
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Stapes Mobilization,
Sodium Fluoride,
hearing loss,
Fenestra Surgery,
inner ear,
People African,
oval window,
middle ear,
deaf people,
ossicular chain,
conductive hearing,
tympanic membrane,
stapedial otosclerosis,
conductive hearing loss,
deaf people deaf,
paget’s disease,
hearing loss surgery,
malleus incus stapes,
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