{"id":4227,"date":"2025-03-31T18:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/otosclerosis-txt\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:12:01","slug":"otosclerosis-txt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/otosclerosis-txt\/","title":{"rendered":"OTOSCLEROSIS.txt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In otosclerosis, there is abnormal growth of bone around the stapes, one of the three tiny bones in the middle ear that transmit sounds to the inner ear. <br \/> The stapes gradually becomes immobilized, resulting in progressive loss of hearing. Usually both ears are affected. <br \/> As well as resulting in hearing loss, otosclerosis may also cause tinnitus (ringing in the ear). <br \/> In many cases, hearing can be improved through the use of a hearing aid.<br \/> For severe cases, hearing can usually be restored by surgery to replace the stapes with an artificial substitute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In otosclerosis, there is abnormal growth of bone around the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-post-by-auto-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}