title: Evaluation of hearing in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.
abstract: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a common and well-understood hereditary periodic fever syndrome. Hereditary periodic fever syndromes include a group of multisystem diseases characterized by recurrent fever attacks with inflammation affecting skin, joints, and some other tissues. These are FMF, tumor necrosis factor receptor, tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome, hyperimmunglobulinemia D syndrome, Muckle-Wells syndrome, and familial cold urticaria. In literature, it is determined that some of these diseases cause hearing loss. In light of the foregoing, we thought that FMF patients may have the same type of subclinical hearing loss and, therefore, the hearing ability of these patients was evaluated with otoacoustic emission and high frequency audiometry tests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kerem
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Polat
authors.forename: Ismail Onder
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Uysal
authors.forename: Soner
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Senel
authors.forename: Cemil
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Güler
authors.forename: Kasım
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Durmuş
authors.forename: Suphi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Müderris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D010505:Familial Mediterranean Fever / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017084:Otoacoustic Emissions, Spontaneous / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult