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Hearing loss (conductive)

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Conductive hearing loss is due to a defect in the sound-conducting apparatus.

Test results with conductive deafness: (2)

  • Rinne negative - bone conduction is greater than air conduction
  • beware the false negative Rinne - a patient with severe or even total sensorineural deafness may in fact hear the bone-conducted sound in the opposite, functioning cochlea
  • Weber's test - sound is heard better in the deaf ear

Reference

  1. Zahnert T. The differential diagnosis of hearing loss. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2011 Jun;108(25):433-43
  2. Vikram KB, Naseeruddin K. Combined tuning fork tests in hearing loss: explorative clinical study of the patterns. J Otolarygol. 2004 Aug;33(4):227-34.

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