nerve deafness

She took John to a hearing specialist, who confirmed a diagnosis of nerve deafness.

Rarely, women will have high blood pressure, swelling, and nerve deafness as a complication of pregnancy.

Many patients have accompanying nerve deafness and atrophy of the peroneal muscles.

Lane was born deaf and, at two weeks old, was diagnosed with congenital nerve deafness.

The first defect observed in individuals who suffer from this condition affects the auditory system and is known as bilateral nerve deafness.

Louise and Spencer Tracy's son, John, was diagnosed with nerve deafness in1925.

They serve as part of Hutchinson's triad, which also includes interstitial keratitis and eighth nerve deafness.

In addition, about 70 to 75% of those affected develop diabetes insipidus and about two-thirds develop auditory nerve deafness.

Deafness: Sensorineural (nerve deafness).

It is a common pattern of presentation for congenital syphilis, and consists of three phenomena: interstitial keratitis, Hutchinson incisors, and eighth nerve deafness.

Epstein and co-workers described four patients from two kindred's who had hereditary nephritis and nerve deafness indistinguishable from Alport's syndrome in association with macrothrombopathic thrombocytopenia.

In 1977, Barakat and co-authors J.B. D'Albora, M.M. Martin, and P.A. Jose described four siblings with familial nephrosis, nerve deafness, and hypoparathyroidism.

In addition to bilateral nerve deafness and myopia, other symptoms that plague infected individuals early in disease progression include ataxia, muscle wasting, severe peripheral neuritic pain sometimes accompanied by elevated spinal fluid protein, and joint stiffness.

Carl-Henry Alström (1907-1993) was a Swedish psychiatrist who described a syndrome now named for him, Alström syndrome, an hereditary disorder that characteristically includes obesity in childhood, nerve deafness, and retinal degeneration (due to atypical retinitis pigmentosa).

Known as sensori neural deafness, it may have been called nerve deafness, perceptive deafness, inner ear deafness, presbyacusis - but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss, at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics.