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Hearing loss in patients with Behçet's disease: an audiological and transient evoked otoacoustic emission study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2009

S Aslan ,
G Serarslan ,
N Savas ,
E Teksoz  and
S Dagli
S Aslan*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
G Serarslan
Affiliation:
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
N Savas
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
E Teksoz
Affiliation:
Antakya Maternity Hospital, Hatay, Turkey
S Dagli
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Sundus Aslan, Ürgen Paşa Mh 75 yıl Bulv, Ceren Apt No 6/19, 31040 Antakya, Hatay, Turkey. Fax: +90 326 214 49 77 E-mail: drsundus@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Objective:

To investigate hearing loss in patients with Behçet's disease.

Materials and methods:

Twenty-four consecutive cases of Behçet's disease and 24 sex- and age-matched controls were included in this study. Pure tone and high frequency audiometric tests were performed and pure tone average hearing thresholds calculated for both groups. Transient evoked otoacoustic emission testing was also performed.

Results:

Pure tone audiometry showed a sensorineural hearing loss in 15 of the Behçet's disease ears. Hearing thresholds were significantly higher in the study group than in the control group, on both pure tone frequency (except 0.5 kHz) and high frequency audiometry. Significant reductions in transient evoked otoacoustic emission amplitude were found at 1.4 and 2 kHz in the Behçet's disease patients. There were no significant differences in reproducibility, stimulus intensity or stability, comparing the Behçet's disease patients and controls.

Conclusion:

Significantly lower mid-frequency amplitudes were found in Behçet's patients on transient evoked otoacoustic emission testing.

Keywords

Behçet's DiseaseOtoacoustic EmissionHearing Loss

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 124 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 10 - 15
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 2009

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