Conductive hearing loss is a type of hearing impairment in which sound is prevented from passing efficiently through the outer or middle ear to reach the inner ear. It arises from problems along the sound-conducting pathway, such as obstruction of the ear canal, perforation of the eardrum, fluid or infection in the …
Conductive hearing loss is a type of hearing impairment in which sound is prevented from passing efficiently through the outer or middle ear to reach the inner ear. It arises from problems along the sound-conducting pathway, such as obstruction of the ear canal, perforation of the eardrum, fluid or infection in the middle ear, fixation or disruption of the ossicular chain, or congenital malformations of the external and middle ear. Because the inner ear and hearing nerve remain intact, conductive losses often respond to medical or surgical treatment that restores the mechanical transmission of sound, distinguishing them from sensorineural losses. Within otology, conductive hearing loss connects the assessment of hearing, the management of middle-ear disease, and reconstructive ear surgery. Otolaryngology Advances publishes peer-reviewed, open-access research across these areas, including a comparative study of graft materials in tympanoplasty, a reinterpretation of the electrogenesis of the brainstem auditory evoked potential, and a case of congenital aural atresia and microtia with cholesteatoma, all of which bear on the structures and conditions that produce conductive hearing impairment. This page gathers open-access research relevant to conductive hearing loss for readers seeking primary clinical and diagnostic evidence.
5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
The 5 articles above have been cited 7 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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