Timing of newborn hearing screening in the neonatal intensive care unit: implications for targeted screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection
Autor: | Cory T Hanlon, Masako Shimamura, Amy Leber, Ursula M Findlen, Holly Gerth, Alexandra K Medoro, Douglas Salamon, Nicholas Foor, Pablo J. Sánchez, Prashant S. Malhotra, Gina Hounam, Oliver F. Adunka |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Neonatal intensive care unit business.industry Hearing loss MEDLINE Congenital cytomegalovirus infection Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age medicine.disease Hearing screening Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Gestation Targeted screening medicine.symptom business |
Zdroj: | Journal of Perinatology. 41:310-314 |
ISSN: | 1476-5543 0743-8346 |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41372-020-00801-0 |
Popis: | To determine when infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have the first hearing screen performed, and thus inform targeted testing for cytomegalovirus (CMV)-related hearing loss. Retrospective review of electronic health records of infants admitted to a Level 4 outborn NICU and had a first hearing screen performed from 8/2016–8/2018. Among 1498 infants, 546 (36%) had a first hearing screen performed at age >21 days when a positive CMV PCR test cannot distinguish congenital from postnatal CMV acquisition. While most infants tested at >21 days of age were |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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