Hearing loss among stroke patients.
Pure-tone hearing thresholds were measured by air conduction for 140 right hemiplegic and 103 left hemiplegic patients who had suffered a single stroke. Statistical and informal testing of the mean audiometric thresholds revealed that: (1) the ability of the aphasic patient to attend to and to perform the audiometric test was independent of the severity of the aphasic impairment; (2) aphasic patients did not suffer disproportionately greater hearing losses than did other right hemiplegic stroke patients; (3) no relation was apparent between the severity of the hearing loss and the test ear or side of hemiplegia after stroke; (4) the severity of high-frequency hearing loss among stroke patients was consistent with that found in the elderly male population at Framingham, MA (Moscicki, Elkins, Baum, and McNamara, Ear Hear 1985;6:184-90); and (5) the prevalence of hearing loss among the stroke patients was greater than that reported at Framingham, but was consistent with rates found among elderly nursing home residents.
Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Florida, Gainesville.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006316:Hearing Loss, High-Frequency / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000150:complications