The Absence of Permanent Sensorineural Hearing Loss in a Cohort of Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Importance of Performing the Audiological "Work-Up".

Rita Malesci Davide Rizzo Valeria Del Vecchio Nicola SerraGiuseppe TaralloDomenico D'ErricoValentina CoronellaFrancesco Bussu Andrea Lo Vecchio Gennaro Auletta Annamaria FranzèAnna Rita Fetoni

Published in: Children (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)

HL needs to be considered among the manifestations of COVID-19 in children, nevertheless, we found cases of transient CHL. The onset of HL during or following COVID-19 infection does not eliminate the indication for maintaining audiological surveillance and audiological work-ups, including genetic diagnosis, to avoid the risk of mistaking other causes of HL.

Keyphrases

young adults
coronavirus disease
sars cov
public health
genome wide
gene expression
dna methylation
copy number