Causes of childhood deafness at a Dutch school for the hearing impaired
| Autor: | Peter M. van Rijn, W. R. J. Cremers |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Hearing loss Usher syndrome Eye disease Genetic counseling Hearing Loss Sensorineural Audiology Deafness 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine otorhinolaryngologic diseases Medicine Humans 030223 otorhinolaryngology Pendred syndrome Genes Dominant Netherlands business.industry General Medicine Syndrome medicine.disease Otorhinolaryngology El Niño 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Etiology Population study Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology. 100(11) |
| ISSN: | 0003-4894 |
| Popis: | This study was conducted on 162 hearing-impaired school pupils who were investigated as to the cause of their hearing loss. In 64 pupils (40%) a hereditary cause was recognized, and in 43 (27%), an acquired cause; in 55 (34%) the cause remained unknown, according to the criteria we used for defining a cause. Special attention was paid to the differences between the hereditary and acquired forms of deafness in relation to the degree of hearing loss. The study population therefore was divided into groups per 10 dB of hearing loss. Using this method we found that an autosomal dominant hearing loss occurred significantly more frequently among the less severe hearing disorders. This finding, which has not been seen in the literature, is important in genetic counseling for the deaf. Another remarkable finding was that Usher's syndrome, especially type 2 with a moderate hearing loss, was more frequent among the hearing-impaired subjects than we had expected. |
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