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The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 2 Number of patients with hearing loss

From: Hearing assessment and treatment outcome in ENT tuberculosis at a tertiary hospital in India

 

Number of patients (n = 200)

Significant hearing loss*

5/200

No significant hearing loss

195/200

  1. *Significant hearing loss, according to the ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association), can be defined as (a) 20-dB decrease at any one test frequency, (b) 10-dB decrease at any two adjacent test frequencies, or (c) loss of response at three consecutive test frequencies where responses were previously obtained [20]
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