Author response: Clinical Reasoning: A young woman with respiratory failure, hearing loss, and paraplegia

We thank Drs. Bhatt and Adams for the thoughtful comment on our article.1 Hypoxia affects cochlear function in many ways,2–5 including a rapid decline in both endocochlear and other cochlear potentials (i.e., cochlear microphonic, distortion-product otoacoustic emission, and compound action potential),6,7 as well as inducing histologic and cellular changes.8 Moreover, hypoxia, in the form of apneic spells, is a significant clinical predictor of newborn sensorineural hearing loss.9

Source: Neurology - August 28, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Ntranos, A., Shoirah, H., Dhamoon, M. S., Hahn, D., Naidich, T. P., Shin, S. Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research