Achados timpanométricos em um grupo de escolares

• Autor(a) principal: Lindau, Tâmara De Andrade [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Delecrode, Camila Ribas [UNESP], Cardoso, Ana Cláudia Vieira [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-18462013005000036; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110188
• topic: Audição; Pré-escolar; Triagem; Orelha Média; Testes de Impedância Acústica; Hearing; Preschool; Triage; Middle Ear; Acoustic Impedance Tests

PURPOSE: to characterize and compare the tympanometric findings in a group of preschoolers. METHOD: 112 preschoolers were evaluated, both genders, aged from four years old to five years and eleven months old who attended a Municipal School of Early Childhood Education in the suburbs of Marilia city- SP. Tympanometry was used as triage procedure. It was considered that the child PASSED in the triage when it presented an A type tympanometric curve, bilaterally, being reevaluated in case of failure. RESULTS: it was observed a high failure index (63.4%) in the studied population. The older female preschoolers presented a higher index of A type tympanograms, in both ears. There was a higher incidence of failure in male preschoolers aged from four years to four years and eleven months. CONCLUSION: in this sample, there was a high index of tympanometric alteration. There was a tendency among younger male students to present a higher index of tympanometric alteration when compared to older female preschoolers, this difference was not statistically significant.