The study analyzed the medical records of 52 children diagnosed with EVA from the UH Rainbow Department of Otolaryngology, selecting records with both a computerized tomography (CT) scan for diagnosis and a median of five sets of audiogram test data to measure speech reception threshold, or the minimum intensity of decibels at which a patient can recognize half of spoken words, and the percent of words the patient recognized. (sciencedaily.com)
Seventy - nine patients had initial audiograms available for review that revealed conductive, sensorineural or mixed hearing losses. (sciencedaily.com)
A total of 54 patients had audiograms performed. (sciencedaily.com)