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Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection and Hearing Loss

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Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections

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Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most frequent congenital infection and the leading cause of nongenetic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children worldwide. Congenital CMV (cCMV) infection (cCMVI) may be asymptomatic or symptomatic at birth. Although the minority of infants with cCMVI have symptoms at birth, these symptomatic infants are at significant risk for long-term sequelae. Sensorineural hearing loss (HL) is the most common sequela of cCMVI and can occur in asymptomatic and symptomatic cases [1, 2]. The association between cCMVI and HL was first described by Medearis in 1964 [3] and has been further described in numerous longitudinal studies since that time [4].

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  1. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye

    Meltem Polat

  2. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Türkiye

    Ayşe Engin Arısoy

  3. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

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  4. Infectious Disease Service, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

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Polat, M., Arısoy, A.E., Demmler-Harrison, G.J. (2023). Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection and Hearing Loss. In: Arısoy, A.E., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N., Cingi, C., Correa, A.G. (eds) Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections. Comprehensive ENT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38495-0_7

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