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Medico-Legal Aspects of Traumatic Ear Injuries and the Resulting Permanent Infirmities in Assiut University Hospitals

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Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

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Background: Post traumatic hearing loss has a great impact on the quality of life of individuals. Aim of the work: This study was done to identify the clinical and forensic aspects of ear injuries and their sequelae. Subjects and Methods: This study included patients with ear injuries who attended in Audio vestibular Medicine unit, ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) clinic and the Trauma Unit of Assiut University Hospitals during a one-year period. Demographic data and injury characteristics were collected. Investigations were done for the patients to assess hearing condition to detect any permanent infirmity. Results: The study included 103 patients with ear injuries. More than one third of injuries were in the age group <20 years old, and (47.6%) were in the age group of 20 to 40 years old. Majority of patients were males. Temporal bone fracture was found in (63.1%) of cases. Foreign body insertion and motor car accident were significantly higher as mode of injuries  in age category<20 years old. Conductive hearing loss was the most common disorder.   Facial nerve and speech affections were also observed among patients. More than half of the patients completely recovered. Permanent infirmity due to hearing loss was recorded in (25.5%) of the study patients. Permanent infirmity in the present study was due to sensorineural hearing loss in (50.0%) and conductive hearing loss in (29.2%) of cases. Conclusion: Post-traumatic conductive hearing loss showed good outcome in affected patients while post-traumatic sensorineural hearing loss showed bad prognosis with great impact on quality of life of affected patients.

DOI

10.21608/esctj.2024.305765.1064

Keywords

Ear injury, Post traumatic hearing loss, Permanent Infirmity, Disability

Authors

First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Almaz

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University.

Email

doaa.almaz3784@gmail.com

City

Assiut

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First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Mohammed

MiddleName

Abdelsamee

Affiliation

Public Health and Community Medicine Department. Faculty of medicine.

Email

shima_dola@aun.edu.eg

City

assiut

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First Name

Maha

Last Name

Aly

MiddleName

Abdelgaber

Affiliation

Audiovestibular Medicine unit, ENT Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University.

Email

mahaabdelgaber@aun.edu.eg

City

assiut

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

soliman

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Affiliation

Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department , Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University.

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asmaahsoliman@gmail.com

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0000-0002-1427-2280

Volume

12

Article Issue

2

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51764

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-07-20

Publish Date

2024-11-01

Page Start

26

Page End

37

Print ISSN

2356-6515

Online ISSN

2356-6523

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Egyptian Society of Clinical Toxicology Journal

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https://esctj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Medico-Legal Aspects of Traumatic Ear Injuries and the Resulting Permanent Infirmities in Assiut University Hospitals

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25 Dec 2024