Speech discrimination impairment of the worse-hearing ear in asymmetric hearing loss.

Takaomi Kurioka Hajime Sano Shogo Furuki Taku Yamashita

Published in: International journal of audiology (2020)

ASHL patients' worse-hearing ear exhibited a lower SDSmax than SHL patients' ears, despite a comparable AC threshold. Management of hearing impairment in ASHL patients should receive more attention.

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