Catastrophic progressive hearing loss in childhood.
We present a report on a 5-year-old child with a complex medical and audiologic history who exhibited catastrophic progression in hearing loss. Hearing loss was initially attributed to bacterial meningitis at age 3 months; progression was apparently related to perilymph fistula at age 8 years. Etiologies associated with progressive hearing loss in children as well as signs of progression and monitoring protocols for children at risk for progressive hearing loss are discussed.
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, USA.
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D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018450:Disease Progression; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications; D012720:Severity of Illness Index