Hearing characteristics and cochlear implant effects in children with Waardenburg syndrome: a case series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Waardenburg syndrome (WS) has high clinical and genetic heterogeneity. We aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics of children with WS, and to analyze the effect of cochlear implantation in children with WS who had severe sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods

The clinical characteristics of children with WS diagnosed and treated in the past 5 years in the Department of Otolaryngology, Shanghai Children's Hospital were retrospectively analyzed. The 5 WS cases, including 2 males and 3 females, had bilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss. Cochlear implantation was performed between 8 and 21 months old. Audiology tests were conducted, including otoacoustic emissions (OAEs), auditory brainstem response (ABR), and multiple auditory steady-state evoked respons

SUBMITTER: Fan W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9360812 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature