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TONE AUDIOMETRY CONTROL OF CHILDREN TREATED FOR MENINGITIS WITH LARGE INTRAVENOUS DOSES OF AMPICILLIN
Author(s) -
DAHNSJÖ H.,
ANDERSSON H.,
HALLANDER H. O.,
RUDBERG R. D.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1976.tb04962.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ampicillin , meningitis , pure tone audiometry , audiometry , ototoxicity , bacterial meningitis , sensorineural hearing loss , hearing loss , audiology , anesthesia , pediatrics , surgery , antibiotics , chemotherapy , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , cisplatin
. Thirty‐seven children treated for bacterial meningitis with ampicillin in high doses were followed up with audiometric control. Defects were recorded in 6 cases. Two of these were ascribed to chronic otosalpingitis. In 4 patients with sensorineural hearing loss, 3 were unilateral, and in only one case was the damage bilateral. Even here there was a previous history of hearing loss. A suggested ototoxicity of ampicillin could not be confirmed.