title: Clinical profile of hearing loss in children with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection: CMV DNA diagnosis using preserved umbilical cord.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is a major cause of bilateral and unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children, accounting for 9.0% of SNHL cases. The diagnostic rate using combined genetic deafness test and CMV DNA detection test was determined to be 46.4% in bilateral profound SNHL.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present study investigated the prevalence of congenital CMV infection diagnosed retrospectively by detection of CMV DNA in dried umbilical cord specimens from children with unilateral or bilateral SNHL up to the age of 12 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Preserved dried umbilical cords were collected from 134 children with bilateral (46 children) or unilateral (88 children) SNHL. DNA was extracted from the dried umbilical cords and CMV DNA was detected by quantitative PCR. Genetic deafness tests based on the invader assay were performed in children with bilateral SNHL.
  
  
  RESULTS
  CMV DNA from the dried umbilical cords was detected in 8.7% of the bilateral SNHL and 9.1% of unilateral SNHL. Deafness gene mutations were identified in 21.7% (10/46) of children with bilateral SNHL.
authors: Department of Otolaryngology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
authors: Sakiko
authors: S
authors: Furutate
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Iwasaki
authors: Shin-ya
authors: SY
authors: Nishio
authors: Hideaki
authors: H
authors: Moteki
authors: Shin-ichi
authors: S
authors: Usami
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