REPORT ON THE 39TH ANNUAL MIDWINTER MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY, 20–24 FEBRUARY, 2016, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA
Journal Title: Journal of Hearing Science - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The 39th annual midwinter conference of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology took place in San Diego, California, USA from February 20–24, 2016. This year 27 podium sessions, 4 poster sessions (with 945 poster presentations), 14 symposia, 5 workshops, and 8 mentoring sessions were organized.
Authors and Affiliations
Monika Oldak, W. Wiktor Jedrzejczak, Krzysztof Kochanek
DEVELOPMENT OF PHONEMICALLY BALANCED WORD LISTS FOR ADULTS IN THE KANNADA LANGUAGE
Background: Standard word lists are required to assess an individual’s level of speech understanding. The material should comprise a number of lists and has to be in the listener’s native language. The aim of the present...
A REVIEW OF NEONATAL HEARING SCREENING PRACTICES IN INDIA
Newborn hearing screening (NHS) programs were implemented in India as a part of research studies beginning in the early 1970s. Later, several hospitals established their own hearing screening programs. In 2006, the Gover...
HEARING LOSS AND VERY LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
Background: Regardless of gestational age, any newborn (NB) with a weight at birth of <1500 g is considered to be of very low birth weight (VLBW). The incidence of hearing loss in this population group is 5–6% but the fr...
SOME REASONS FOR THE FAILURE OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF OTOSCLEROSIS: LESSONS FROM A CASE STUDY
Background: Surgical treatment of otosclerosis requires considerable experience of the otosurgeon, especially in advanced cases or in an ear with an unusually narrow external auditory canal, a narrow niche of the round w...
WHEN SHOULD ONE LOOK FOR IVS1+1G>A SPLICE MUTATION IN PATIENTS WITH NONSYNDROMIC SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS?
Background: The splice site nucleotide substitution IVS1+1G>A in the non-coding part of the GJB2 gene is one of the recessive pathogenic mutations causing nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSHL). We present here t...