The Role of CT in Knowing the Health Outcomes of Children Associated with Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Abstract

Introduction: Hearing loss is defined as the decrease in auditory perception, which in the case of the child, does not allow him to correctly learn his own language, participate in the normal activities of his age and continue with the use of general school education. Aims: This paper aims to assess the role of CT in knowing the health outcomes of children associated with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Patients and methods: This paper is interested to study the role of CT in knowing the health outcomes of children associated with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. This study was conducted on children younger than eight and older than ten, even 15 years for both sexes, male and female, in different hospitals in Iraq, on 12^th October 2021 to 24^th August 2022. The collected data was analysed, and statistics by SPSS and Excel programs. This study was examined into patients’ groups and diagnosis with 70 members of patients. Results and Discussion: Our results found that the gene factor in patients under the SNHL scan (40) patients was more than the CT patients scan, who are 10, which identified malformations for patients or those with profound hearing loss of the third degree in children due to SNHL, where our results were similar to the results of Woolford, et al., Patients to 29.5% of the results by CT scan are abnormal, but our study differed from it in that its study was carried out on all adults, adolescents, and children who undergo cochlear implantation, but our study was conducted only on children. Conclusion: The CT scan is considered abnormal in the presence of profound hearing loss or cranial malformations in paediatric patients, which may result from the occurrence of one of the four abnormal cases of profound hearing loss or cranial malformations that are predicted by a CT scan. Regarding the evaluation of cases by CT scan, our results showed that Common cavity deformity and dilated vestibular aqueduct occupied a large percentage of hearing patients.