Bilateral Hearing Loss

1.	Hearing Loss (Hearing Impairment)
2.	Bacterial Meningitis
3.	Hypotension (Low Blood Pressure)
4.	Deafness (Deaf Mutism)
5.	Unilateral Hearing Loss
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Experts

1.	Engelhardt, M: 1 article (05/2005)
2.	Wäsch, R: 1 article (05/2005)
3.	Müller, A M S: 1 article (05/2005)
4.	Maier, W: 1 article (05/2005)
5.	McEwan, M: 1 article (06/2004)
6.	Abdelkader, M: 1 article (06/2004)
7.	Cooke, L: 1 article (06/2004)
8.	Cyna-Gorse, F: 1 article (09/2003)
9.	Elalaoui, A: 1 article (09/2003)
10.	Bozorg Grayeli, A: 1 article (09/2003)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Bilateral Hearing Loss:

1.	Dexamethasone (Maxidex)FDA LinkGeneric 10/13/1988 - "Twelve patients in the two placebo groups (14 percent) had severe or profound bilateral hearing loss requiring the use of a hearing aid, as compared with 1 (1 percent) in the two dexamethasone groups (P less than 0.001)" 07/01/1992 - "Dexamethasone administration in addition to antimicrobial therapy appears to be effective in reducing neurologic sequelae and bilateral hearing loss associated with bacterial meningitis in children." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	UniversalIBA 12/01/2000 - "OBJECTIVE: To compare the speech and language development of children with bilateral hearing loss and normal cognition who were born in hospitals with universal newborn hearing screening to that of their peers who were born in hospitals without this screening program" 02/01/1999 - "Emerging from current studies is that estimates of prevalence in the universal newborn population vary from 0.9 in 1000 for permanent bilateral hearing loss of more than 35 dB, to 3.24 in 1000 for bilateral hearing loss, to 5.95 in 1000 when unilateral and moderate hearing loss infants are counted" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Hydrocodone (Dihydrocodeinone)FDA LinkGeneric 05/01/2007 - "METHODS: Patients presenting with rapidly progressive bilateral hearing loss who had a documented history of hydrocodone use were selected for the study" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Cisplatin (Platino)FDA LinkGeneric 02/01/1989 - "Each course of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) comprised 150 mg/m2 and was administered initially at two weekly intervals for seven courses (3 mo) and subsequently at three monthly intervals for 15 to 21 mo. Overall, 604 courses were administered, and observations were conducted from diagnosis to 6 yr. Bilateral hearing loss was detected in all patients" 07/01/2007 - "Three volunteers presented bilateral hearing loss, mild to moderate in 6 kHz and 8 kHz frequencies, after chemotherapy with cisplatin" 02/01/1999 - "Bilateral hearing loss occurred in three of these children, which indicates that possible synergy of aminoglycoside antibiotics and cisplatin should be investigated with respect to ototoxicity" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Vincristine (Oncovin)FDA LinkGeneric 06/01/2003 - "This is a case of a 16-year old girl who developed sudden bilateral hearing loss related to vincristine therapy." 06/01/2003 - "Bilateral hearing loss during vincristine therapy: a case report." 12/01/2000 - "We describe a 69-year old male patient diagnosed with multiple myeloma 7 months ago who developed sudden bilateral hearing loss related to vincristine therapy" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
6.	Retinaldehyde (Retinal)IBA 07/01/1996 - "Bilateral hearing loss and retinal microangiopathy were also noted" 08/01/1976 - "An 8-year-old white girl with a history of vertigo, nausea, and vomiting developed a progressive hearing loss, bilateral retinal arteriolar narrowing in each eye, vasoproliferation, and subsequent intravitreal hemorrhage" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
7.	Gentamicins (Gentamicin)FDA LinkGeneric 03/01/2002 - "The antibiotic regimen included gentamicin and, after 5 doses, the patient reported profound bilateral hearing loss" 05/01/2001 - "Apart from bilateral hearing loss due to gentamicin treatment as a pre-term child, the patient was in of good health" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
8.	Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)IBA 02/01/2001 - "Sudden bilateral hearing loss and sporadic mitochondrial DNA deletion." 01/01/2006 - "The authors report the clinical, neuroimaging, muscle biopsy and mtDNA findings in a patient affected by bilateral hearing loss and mental retardation since infancy, presenting at age 31 years with a rapid deterioration of mental status and ataxia leading to vegetative condition and death at the age of 32 years" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
9.	Fluorescein (Funduscein)FDA Link 05/13/2007 - "Fundoscopy and fluorescein angiography indicated multiple occlusions of the retinal arteries, audiography revealed bilateral hearing loss" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
10.	Lactic Acid FDA LinkGeneric 05/01/2006 - "The raised CSF lactate level, clinical characteristics such as diabetes, bilateral hearing loss and symmetrical cerebral calcification strongly suggested some kinds of mitochondrial disease" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
25 Drugs and Important Bio-Agents and 30 more articles analyzed in the Research Interface, order at left...

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Cochlear Implantation 04/01/1998 - "Individuals with sudden bilateral hearing loss in whom treatable causes have been eliminated may benefit from cochlear implantation." 01/01/2001 - "Seven patients with profound bilateral hearing loss who were undergoing cochlear implantation were included in the study" 07/01/2005 - "SUBJECTS: Eight subjects with profound congenital bilateral hearing loss who underwent cochlear implantation as adults (aged 18-55 years) between 1995 and 2002 and had at least 1 year of experience with the implant" 12/01/2004 - "Cochlear implantation should therefore be performed in very young children identified as suffering from profound bilateral hearing loss" 11/01/2002 - "CONTEXT: Unilateral cochlear implantation is a cost-effective intervention for profound bilateral hearing loss" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	Cochlear Implants (Cochlear Implant) 07/01/2008 - "There were two main objectives for this study: (1) to estimate the number of children between the ages of 12 months and 6 years of age with severe to profound bilateral hearing loss who could benefit from a cochlear implant and (2) to determine if the number of children projected to be candidates received this medical care" 11/01/2007 - "The present study 1) examined speech recognition at three intensity levels and in noise for adults with bilateral hearing loss who wore amplification and were referred for cochlear implant evaluation but did not meet current audiological criteria, and 2) compared their performance to cochlear implant recipients using current implant technology" 01/10/2008 - "Cochlear implants are neuroprostheses designed to restore speech perception in case of profound bilateral hearing loss" 10/01/2003 - "PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Providing a unilateral cochlear implant in a patient with a profound bilateral hearing loss has now been a standard clinical practice for more than a decade" 10/01/2000 - "The middle fossa approach was used in 11 patients with profound bilateral hearing loss for insertion of a cochlear implant" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Stapes Surgery (Stapedectomy) 01/01/2003 - "Stapedectomy was less beneficial for 17 (25%) of 68 patients with asymmetric hearing bilateral loss and 15 (29%) 52 of patients with symmetric bilateral hearing loss, who still had asymmetric hearing loss after the operation" 01/01/1999 - "The objective of this study was to examine the outcome of unilateral stapes surgery in one patient group with bilateral hearing loss and one group with unilateral hearing loss" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Hearing Aids (Hearing Aid) 01/01/1993 - "After an initial psychomotor retardation intellectual and social function improved significantly after the use of hearing aids (50-70 db bilateral hearing loss)" 06/01/2008 - "For a person with bilateral hearing loss, the bilateral fitting of hearing aids thus seems like a natural choice" 12/01/2007 - "MATERIAL AND METHOD: A total of 37 adult patients with symmetric bilateral hearing loss were examined regarding the correlation between the best score in speech discrimination test, corporal laterality, auditory laterality with dichotic digits in Spanish and score for filtered words with monaural hearing aid" 12/01/2007 - "INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: To identify the auditory or clinical test that has the best correlation with the ear in which we apply the monaural hearing aid in symmetric bilateral hearing loss" 10/01/2004 - "Of the 16 infants with bilateral hearing loss, nine with more than moderate loss had hearing aids fitted at our hospital or related educational institution before most were six months old" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Tracheostomy 03/01/2004 - "Mortality and severe morbidity--defined as O2 requirement at discharge, need for a tracheostomy, neurologic impairment, or bilateral hearing loss-were evaluated when the patients were at 6 months old" 05/15/2007 - "She presented with severe lower eyelid colobomas requiring skin grafting, malar and mandibular hypoplasia, bilateral microtia with external auditory canal atreasia, dysplastic ossicles, hearing loss, bilateral choanal stenosis, cleft palate without cleft lip, several oral frenula of the upper lip/gum, and micrognathia requiring tracheostomy" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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