Frequency-specific aspects of the auditory brainstem response threshold elicited by 1000-Hz filtered clicks in subjects with sloping cochlear hearing losses.
The frequency specificity of the ABR threshold evoked by a 1000-Hz filtered click was determined in subjects with sloping cochlear hearing losses, both high- and low-frequency in character. The results show that the ABR threshold evoked by this stimulus is low-frequency specific. The standard error in estimating the 1000-Hz pure-tone threshold (PTT) is 10.4 dB, which equals that for estimating the 3000-Hz PTT from the routinely used click-evoked ABR threshold. The ABR threshold evoked by a 1000-Hz filtered click can therefore be regarded as an accurate tool to predict the pure-tone hearing loss at 1000-Hz. In comparison with the ABR threshold evoked by a click masked with 1590-Hz high-pass noise, the ABR threshold evoked by a 1000-Hz filtered click has a larger dynamic range, yields a larger number of useful responses and is less time consuming. For clinical low-frequency-specific ABR threshold assessment, the 1000-Hz filtered click is therefore preeminently useful.
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Sophia Children's Hospital Rotterdam, Erasmus University, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Netherlands.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D002648:Child; D003051:Cochlea / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise