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central hearing loss
Etiology:
- Alzheimer's disease
Pathology:
-> defect in central auditory processing
Clinical manifestations:
-> impaired speech discrimination beyond what would be expected based on threshold loss
Laboratory: audiometry
Related
Alzheimer's disease (AD)
General
sensorineural hearing loss
References
Mangione C. In: UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine &
Board Review, Marina Del Ray, CA, Sept 12-15, 2001