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Milaine Dominici Sanfins1,2\* , Michele Vargas Garcia3 , Eliara Pinto Vieira Biaggio3 and Piotr Henryk Skarzynski4,5,6

1 Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

2 Centro de Eletrofisiologia e Neuroaudiologia Avançada, São Paulo, Brazil

3 Departamento de Fonoaudiologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

4 Department of Teleaudiology and Hearing Screening, World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw/Kajetany, Poland

5 Department of Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

6 Institute of Sensory Organs, Kajetany, Poland

\*Address all correspondence to: msanfins@uol.com.br

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