Open AccessClinical Predictors for Hearing Loss in Children With Bacterial Meningitis
Author(s) -
Joe Walter Kutz,
Lawrence M. Simon,
Sri Kiran Chennupati,
Carla M. Giani,
Spiros Manolidis
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archives of otolaryngology--head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-361X
pISSN - 0886-4470
DOI - 10.1001/archotol.132.9.941
Subject(s) - meningitis , medicine , hearing loss , sensorineural hearing loss , streptococcus pneumoniae , incidence (geometry) , neisseria meningitidis , sequela , pediatrics , cerebrospinal fluid , bacterial meningitis , audiology , surgery , antibiotics , physics , genetics , optics , bacteria , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
To identify clinical risk factors that predict a higher incidence of hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis, to determine the overall incidence of hearing loss in a large group of children proven by culture findings to have bacterial meningitis, and to compare clinical characteristics among patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis and Neisseria meningitidis meningitis.