title: Hearing assessment in high-risk congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report results of audiometric evaluations in high-risk congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors and their exposure to audiological risk factors (mechanical ventilation, high frequency oscillation, aminoglycoside therapy and neuromuscular blocking agents).
  
  
  METHODS
  All newborns with high-risk congenital diaphragmatic hernia born between January 2003 and June 2009 were treated consecutively at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Hospital, University of Padova. Thirty-two survived and 26 of them underwent formal audiological evaluation (tonal and speech audiometry, otoacoustic emission, and immitance measurements) and follow up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-one children had normal hearing; 4 had conductive hearing loss, which was successfully treated; and 1 had severe sensorineural hearing loss and suffers from Turner syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our series revealed a lower prevalence of sensorineural hearing loss in high-risk congenital diaphragmatic hernia survivors than in other studies, suggesting that the association between hearing loss and congenital diaphragmatic hernia has yet to be accurately defined and fully elucidated.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 3, 35128 Padova, Italy. carla.morando@unipd.it
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morando
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Midrio
authors.forename: Piergiorgio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gamba
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filippone
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sgrò
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Orzan
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors