Mayo Clinic proceedings
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Mayo Clinic proceedings · Nov 2020
Observational StudyBeyond the ABCs: Hearing Loss and Quality of Life in Vestibular Schwannoma.
To assess the impact of differential hearing loss on QOL in sporadic unilateral vestibular schwannoma. ⋯ Hearing loss adversely affects QOL after only modest audiometric disability. The WRS alone appears to be a much more reliable predictor of hearing-related QOL than PTA or American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery class.