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Auditory brain stem response (ABR) in unilateral hearing loss
Author(s) -
Özdamar Özcan,
Stein Laszlo
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198104000-00009
Subject(s) - audiology , hearing loss , unilateral hearing loss , medicine , audiometry , masking (illustration) , crossover study , psychology , art , alternative medicine , pathology , visual arts , placebo
Auditory brain stem responses (ABRs) were reported with two groups of patients with confirmed and suspected unilateral hearing loss. Evidence of acoustic crossover of click stimuli when the difference in click thresholds for the two ears exceeds approximately 60 db is presented. In such a circumstance, the ABR presumably elicited from the test ear can, in fact, be a reflection of a crossover response from the non‐test ear. In clinical practice, appropriate contralateral ear masking should be employed when ABR audiometry is carried out with infants and adults with suspected unilateral hearing loss.