Resumen
Differentials
Common
- Impactação de cerume
- Corpo estranho
- Tumores benignos (por exemplo, exostose, osteoma, pólipos)
- Otite externa não complicada
- Otite média aguda
- Otite média com efusão
- Colesteatoma
- Labirintite
- Perda auditiva relacionada a ruído
- Trauma do meato acústico externo
- Complicação da meningite
- Acidente vascular cerebral (AVC)
- Presbiacusia
Uncommon
- Neoplasia do meato acústico externo
- Otite externa necrosante
- Perfuração da membrana timpânica
- Fratura do osso temporal
- Anormalidade de desenvolvimento isolada
- Perda auditiva congênita
- Síndrome de Alport
- Síndrome de Jervell Lange-Nielsen
- Anormalidades craniofaciais (por exemplo, síndrome de Pierre Robin, disostose craniofacial e acrocefalossindactilia)
- Síndrome de Waardenburg
- Neuroma acústico (schwannoma vestibular)
- Tumor do glomo
- Infecção por citomegalovírus (CMV)
- Infecção por toxoplasmose
- Infecção por sífilis
- Doença de Paget
- Lúpus eritematoso sistêmico (LES)
- Granulomatose com poliangiite (anteriormente conhecida como granulomatose de Wegener)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Osteogênese imperfeita
- Dissecção da artéria vertebral
- Esclerose múltipla (EM)
- Malformação de Arnold-Chiari
- Neuropatia auditiva
- Perda auditiva neurossensorial idiopática súbita
- Medicamentos ototóxicos
- Doença de Ménière
- Hiperbilirrubinemia neonatal
- Otosclerose
- Doença autoimune da orelha interna
- Fístula perilinfática
Contributors
Authors
Seth R. Schwartz, MD, MPH
Otolaryngologist (Otology/Neurotology)
Department of Otolaryngology
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Medical Director
The Listen for Life Center at Virginia Mason
Seattle
WA
Disclosures
SRS is an author of a reference cited in this topic.
Acknowledgements
Dr S.R. Schwartz would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr S.J. Marzo, Dr J.P. Leonetti, and Dr R.J. Buckingham, previous contributors to this topic. SJM, JPL, and RJB declare that they have no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Alan Micco, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Department of Neurosurgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago
IL
Disclosures
AM declares that he has no competing interests.
George Browning, MD ChB FRCS (Ed & Glasg)
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
MRC Institute of Hearing Research
Glasgow
UK
Disclosures
GB is an author of several books that include discussion of evaluation of hearing loss.
References
Key articles
Chandrasekhar SS, Tsai Do BS, Schwartz SR, et al. Clinical Practice Guideline: Sudden Hearing Loss (Update). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Aug;161(1_suppl):S1-S45.Full text Abstract
Schwartz SR, Magit AE, Rosenfeld RM, et al. Clinical practice guideline (update): earwax (cerumen impaction). Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Jan;156(1 Suppl):S1-29. Abstract
Tsai Do BS, Bush ML, Weinreich HM, et al. Clinical practice guideline: age-related hearing loss. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2024 May;170 Suppl 2:S1-54.Full text Abstract
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management. Oct 2023 [internet publication].Full text
American College of Radiology. ACR Appropriateness Criteria: hearing loss and/or vertigo. 2018 [internet publication].Full text
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- Clinical practice guideline: age-related hearing loss
- Hearing loss in adults: assessment and management
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