Personalized Care for Infants, Children and Adults
听力损失是当您无法部分或完全听到声音时发生的常见情况。它可能会影响您的一个或两个耳朵，可能发生在任何年龄。许多孩子出生在听力损失，65岁以上所有人的一半都持有了听证会问题。
识别听力损失的原因对于确定治疗方案至关重要。筛查婴儿可以早期检测听证问题。没有开始在典型时代发言的幼儿可能会有听力损失。成年人，可能有难以了解人群中的话语，也可能经常要求人们重复自己。具有听力损失的成年人可能倾向于避免社交场合。
症状，诊断和前景
在任何年龄可能发生听力损失，它通常随着时间的推移恶化。症状包括：
- 幼儿延迟语言发展
- 难以听到与您的常规活动干扰
- 听力损失恶化或不会消失
- 响起你的耳朵
- Sudden loss of hearing
- 听到一只耳朵更糟糕
- 经常要求别人重复自己
- 撤回对话和社交环境
听力丧失的诊断包括物理考试and screening tests to determine and measure your ability to hear. The Audiology experts at Penn State Health provide hearing tests for people of all ages. For infants and others who cannot be tested using standard methods, we use more complex methods, including electrophysiological testing, which assesses the inner ear.
有时需要进一步测试，以便正确识别听力损失的原因。该测试可包括耳朵的CT扫描，大脑的MRI，遗传评估和/或血液工作。
Many forms of hearing loss can be successfully treated through medication, hearing aids or surgery. Injecting steroids in the middle ear is a treatment considered for sudden hearing loss. Surgery to rebuild the ear drum or the bones of hearing may be considered. If the hearing loss is more severe, cochlear implantation may be considered in children and adults. The earliest age of cochlear implant surgery has been lowered to 9 months based upon the benefits noted in recent research. Treatment of hearing loss can greatly improve you or your child's ability to communicate, interact with others, and enhance quality of life.
相关服务与治疗
- 一世NTRATOMPANIC耳朵注射
- Reconstructive surgery of the hearing mechanism
- 传统的助听器
- 骨头锚定助听器
- 人工耳蜗
- 听力损失的遗传评价
- Support groups for cochlear implants
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通过临床研究创新治疗
118金宝搏抽水宾州国家健康包括米尔顿S.Hershey Medical Center，宾夕法尼亚州唯一的学术医疗中心。与宾夕法尼亚州立医学院的同事合作，Hershey Medical Center是研究中的国家领导者，新的治疗领先，包括临床试验。
我们正在进行的涉及听证损失的研究包括：
- 使用BAHA吸引©System的皮瓣厚度的演变
- A single institution experience with the BAHA Attract© System
- 磁共振成像（MRI）在耳科疾病的替换和治疗中使用
- BioPlinting从合成结构多肽中开发一种新型鼓膜术管
- 开发3-D印刷颞骨库
- Meniere疾病中的多频鼓风法
有关更多详细信息，请访问临床试验。
特殊面具是为听力受损而佩戴的
Support Groups
Support groups provide an opportunity to share your feelings and connect with other patients and caregivers who are experiencing similar struggles.
