The Effect of Hemodialysis on Hearing

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hearing

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01162057

42-2008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The inner ear contains transporters that are responsible for maintaining a strict homeostatic environment, necessary for transmission and transduction of sound waves. Hemodialysis affects the body's composition including the aspects regulated by these transporters (pH, osmolarity, Na, K). We wish to observe if hemodialysis affects hearing, and if so, by which parameters.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients on hemodialysis

Exclusion criteria

• known hearing defect