Audiology and language findings in twins with gastroesophageal reflux

BACKGROUND: audiological findings and language in regurgitating twin. PROCEDURES: the study consists of the report concerning the Audiology findings and the speech development in regurgitating twin sisters. The following steps were accomplished for this study: gathering data in medical registers, patient medical reports and gathering family history. In the data medical registers, beyond the Audiology speech findings, we also found a boarding type of used therapeutic approach and the daily objective planning that guided the sessions. RESULTS: children showed absence of otoacoustic emissions caused by transient stimulation, distortion product, and evoked hearing potential of the brain stem by air and by bone conduction with bilaterally electrophysiological threshold in 30 and 35dBNA, and a light degree hearing loss was suggested in the findings. In this follow-up, they had episodes of secretary otitis media, confirmed by the otolaryngology evaluation and tympanometric curves as for type B and C. Children initiated the speech therapy with ten-months age. Thirty-two therapeutical sessions were accomplished for subject A.B., 28 for subject A.E., in a period of eleven months, in which the children demonstrated improvements as for the language phase of the speech development, however they were not compatible with the age observed in studied literature. CONCLUSION: the two children with gastroesophageal reflux showed conductive loss, floating hearing in the first two years of life and delay in speech development. Although their productions show delay, it was possible to observe significant improvement of the children in relation to the therapeutical speech process.TEMA: achados audiológicos e linguagem em gêmeas regurgitadoras. PROCEDIMENTOS: o estudo consiste no relato dos achados audiológicos e do desenvolvimento da linguagem de duas crianças, irmãs gêmeas regurgitadoras. Para isso, foram realizadas as seguintes etapas: coleta dos dados nos prontuários, relatórios das pacientes e coleta de informações com os familiares. Nos prontuários, além dos achados audiológicos e de linguagem, foi relatado também o tipo de abordagem terapêutica utilizada e os objetivos dos planejamentos diários que nortearam as sessões. RESULTADOS: as crianças apresentaram ausência das emissões otoacústicas evocadas por estímulo transiente e produto de distorção, e potencial evocado auditivo de tronco encefálico via aérea e via óssea com limiar eletrofisiológico em 30 e 35dBNA bilateralmente, tendo sido sugerido no laudo perda auditiva de grau leve. No acompanhamento apresentaram episódios de otite média secretora, confirmada pela avaliação otorrinolaringológica, e curvas timpanométricas do tipo B e C. As crianças iniciaram a terapia fonoaudiológica aos 10 meses de idade. Foram realizadas 32 sessões terapêuticas para o sujeito A.B. e 28 para o sujeito A.E., no período de 11 meses, nas quais as crianças demonstraram evolução, apresentando produções esperadas para a fase linguística do desenvolvimento da linguagem, porém não eram compatíveis com a idade observada na literatura estudada. CONCLUSÃO: as duas crianças com refluxo gastroesofágico apresentaram perda condutiva, audição flutuante nos primeiros dois anos de vida e atraso no desenvolvimento da linguagem. Apesar de suas produções apresentarem atraso, foi possível observar significativa evolução das crianças em relação à aquisição de linguagem dentro do processo terapêutico.Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas Faculdade de Fonoaudiologia de AlagoasUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)UNIFESPSciEL

Seminário de Dissertação (2024)

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NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data