title: Characteristics of brain stem auditory evoked potentials in children with hearing impairment due to infectious diseases.
abstract: Among objective audiologic tests, the most important were tests of brain stem auditory evoked potentials. The objective of the study was to test the configuration, degree of hearing loss, and response characteristics of auditory brain stem evoked potentials in children with hearing loss occurred due to infectious disease. A case control study design was used. The study group consisted of 54 patients referred for a hearing test because of infectious diseases caused by other agents or that occurred as congenital infection. Infectious agents have led to the emergence of various forms of sensorineural hearing loss. We have found deviations from the normal values of absolute and interwave latencies in some children in our group. We found that in the group of children who had the diseases such as purulent meningitis, or were born with rubella virus and cytomegalovirus infection, a retrocochlear damage was present in children with and without cochlear damage.
authors.affiliation: Institut for Mother and Child Health Care of Serbia "Dr Vukan Cupic," Belgrade, Serbia jovanajec@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jovana Radovan
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ječmenica
authors.affiliation: Institut for Mother and Child Health Care of Serbia "Dr Vukan Cupic," Belgrade, Serbia.
authors.forename: Aleksandra Aleksandar Bajec
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Opančina
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006320:Hearing Tests / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications; D012409:Rubella / Q000150:complications
keywords: auditory evoked brain stem response; children; infectious disease; sensorineural hearing loss