Celiac disease and sensorineural hearing loss in children.
CONCLUSIONS
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a neurological situation and celiac disease (CD) may be seen coincidentally. Children with clinical signs of hearing deficiency of unknown etiology should be assessed for CD.


OBJECTIVE
CD is a chronic inflammatory gluten-dependent intestinal disease and has extraintestinal findings. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of CD and SNHL in our pediatric patients.


METHODS
A total of 25 pediatric patients (50 ears) with biopsy-proven CD were diagnosed in the pediatric gastroenterology department; 25 healthy control subjects (50 ears) were also included in the study. All subjects underwent pure tone audiometry at frequencies of 250-8000 Hz and tympanometry.


RESULTS
In the patients and controls, normal peak compliance, gradient, peak pressure, ear canal volume, and acoustic reflexes were obtained by tympanometry. There was no air-bone gap in any of the participants. There was a statistically significant difference between the audiometric results in the CD and control groups (right ear and left ear) (p < 0.05).
Ear Nose and Throat Clinic, M H Bursa Sevket Yilmaz Research and Training Hospital, Medicine Faculty of Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey.
Fevzi
F
Solmaz
Fatih
F
Unal
Tayfun
T
Apuhan
D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D000293:Adolescent; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002446:Celiac Disease / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies