Prevalencia de sinais e sintomas otologicos em portadores de espondilose cervical / Prevalence of signs and symptoms in patients with cervical spondylosis

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The osteoarthiris (OA) is the most common rheumatologic disease and cervical spondylosis is the OA on the cervical spine. It has been well studied in the past few years, mainly due to its high prevalence, as well as the costs to the health systems all over the world. The great majority of those studies have been focusing on its pathophysiologic aspects, etiology, diagnosis and its treatment. However few studies considered some symptoms that cervical spondylosis carriers can present, such as tinnitus and vertigo, in a such way frequent in the practical clinic. The aim of this study was to analyze in a sample of 50 patients with cervical spondylosis the auditory prevalence of signs and symptoms. It was observed that 56% of them (28 patients) didn t consider their audition as ?Good?, whereas 44% (22 patients) didn?t have any complaint. Among those subjects that didn t consider audition good the right ear was reported with deficit by 33%, the left ear by 48% and by 19% patients, both ears had problems.All patients underwent to a tonal audiometric evaluation. Its was observed a greater percentage of individuals with an audition "No Good" in the high (4, 6, 8Hz) (52%, 66%, 66% respectively) frequencies in the left ear and in the frequency of 6 Hz (56%) in the right ear. The results showed that 36 (72%) patients presented tinnitus complaint. When it verified the complaint of vertigo, 37 (74%) patients presented complaint, whose examinations of vectography had been normal. We concluded that there is a connection between signs and hearing symptoms, such as hearing loss, tinnitus e vertigo, among the patients with cervical spondylosis, suggesting that more studies in this area are required

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zumbido hearing loss cervical osteoarthritis osteoartrite cervical tinnitus vertigo cervical spondylosis espondilose cervical perda auditiva vertigem

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