title: Conductive hearing loss assessment in children with otitis media with effusion. A comparison of pure tone and BERA results.
abstract: A comparison between pure-tone audiometry and brainstem electric response audiometry was made in 25 children with a conductive hearing loss due to otitis media with effusion. Pure-tone audiometry, including bone and air-conduction thresholds, was recorded using standard procedures. BERA was used to construct a latency-intensity function and from this the conductive hearing loss could be estimated. For all frequencies except for 2000 Hz a good correlation was found between the conductive loss in the pure-tone audiogram and the conductive loss as estimated by BERA. The moderate correlation for 2000 Hz is due to a 'Carhart'-notch-like phenomenon in the pure-tone audiogram.
authors.affiliation: Sophia Children's Hospital Rotterdam, Erasmus University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Conijn
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Van der Drift
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Brocaar
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Van Zanten
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry; D001300:Audiometry, Evoked Response; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000209:etiology*; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011930:Reaction Time; D012044:Regression Analysis