title: [Methods for the investigations into the functional state of the organ of hearing and equilibration in locomotive drivers for the early diagnostics of occupational sensorinerual deafness].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to estimate the diagnostic value of various tests for the expert assessment of the functional state of the organ of hearing and equilibration in locomotive drivers employed by the Minsk branch of the Belorussian railway.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 224 members of the locomotive teams were examined. Healthy men (n=56) served as controls. Tonal threshold audimetry (TTA), molecular-genetic study. The study has demonstrated the advantages of performing wide-range TTA in conjunction with dynamic stabilometry. The molecular-genetic studies for the detection of potential 35delG mutations proved to be of little diagnostic value.
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Bulatskaia
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Pankova
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Merkulova
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Likhachev
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kachinskiĭ
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Levaia-Smoliak
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Danilenko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000072259:Connexin 26; D017630:Connexins / Q000235:genetics; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005820:Genetic Testing; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009623:Noise, Occupational; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011890:Railroads; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015837:Vestibular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D017630:Connexins; D000072259:Connexin 26