title: Audiological evaluation in patients with Behçet's disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to determine the characteristics of hearing loss in patients with Behçet's disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-six consecutive patients with Behçet's disease and a control group consisting of 25 age-matched healthy subjects were prospectively included in this study. Pure tone and speech audiometry, tympanometry, distortion product otoacoustic emission testing, and auditory brainstem-evoked response assessment were performed in the patients and controls.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The pure tone audiograms and the results of distortion product otoacoustic emission testing showed statistically significant hearing loss in the Behçet's disease patients (p < 0.05). Auditory brainstem-evoked response results were not significantly different between the patients and controls (p > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the present study demonstrated that audiological involvement is more frequent in patients with Behçet's disease than in healthy controls. Therefore, all patients with Behçet's disease should be regularly monitored by an otolaryngologist and be given information about the possibility of inner-ear involvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology,Yalvac Government Hospital,Isparta,Turkey.
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Sonbay
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Clinic I,Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saka
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology,Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tatlican
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Clinic,Trabzon Kanuni Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vuralkan
authors.affiliation: Department of Audiology,Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aygener
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology,Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eren
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Clinic I,Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Research and Training Hospital,Ankara,Turkey.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Akin
mesh_terms: D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies