The role of auditory evoked potentials and otoacoustic emissions in early detection of hearing abnormalities in Beh çet's disease patients. A case control study.

CONCLUSIONS: Being one of the autoimmune inner ear diseases (AIED), BD has a definite hearing impairment, even in the presence of normal hearing sensitivity, as evidenced by PTA. BD patients had a sub-clinical cochlear pathology which was not affected by disease activity or different organ affection. DPOAE (S/N ratio) proved to be a sensitive test in detecting minimal changes in cochlear pathology and the latencies of CAEPs (tone and speech) measures were considered as sensitive indicators (100%) of early detection of hearing impairment in BD patients. PMID: 29745880 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research