Celiac disease and sensorineural hearing loss in children

Abstract

Conclusion: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a neurological situation and celiac disease (CD) may be seen coincidentally. Children with clinical signs of hearing deficiency of unknown etiology should be assessed for CD. Objective: CD is a chronic inflammatory gluten-dependent intestinal disease and has extraintestinal findings. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of CD and SNHL in our pediatric patients. Methods: A total of 25 pediatric patients (50 ears) with biopsy-proven CD were diagnosed in the pediatric gastroenterology department; 25 healthy control subjects (50 ears) were also included in the study. All subjects underwent pure tone audiometry at frequencies of 250–8000 Hz and tympanometry. Results: In the patients and controls, normal peak compliance, gradient, peak pressure, ear canal volume, and acoustic reflexes were obtained by tympanometry. There was no air–bone gap in any of the participants. There was a statistically significant difference between the audiometric results in the CD and control groups (right ear and left ear) (p < 0.05).

Keywords::

• Tympanometry
• pure tone audiometry

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