Introduction: Dermatoglyphics is the study of dermal ridges and patterns. It frequently used for diagnosis several diseases in human body including congenital deafness. Congenital deafness appears children diagnosed through pathological tests, genetic investigations, or other anatomical measures. Objective: To establish a potential relationship between identification Methods: Forty deaf male fe...

BACKGROUND Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) are widely used for human neonatal deafness screening, but have not been reported for clinical use in dogs. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of TEOAE testing in conscious puppies and the ability of TEOAE testing to correctly identify deaf and hearing ears, as defined by brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER). A...

BACKGROUND The estimated prevalence of Sensory Neural Hearing Loss (SNHL) in patients less than 18 years of age is 6 per 1000. Roughly 50% of cases of congenital SNHL can be linked to a genetic cause, with approximately 30% being syndromic and the remaining 70% being non-syndromic. The term "syndromic" implies the presence of other distinctive clinical features in addition to hearing loss. The ...

The Jervell and Lange Nielson syndrome(JLN) is an infrequent form of long QT syndrome (LQTS) in which prolonged QT interval and congenital deafness exist together. We attempted to identify patients with LQTS among 127 children (age 1.2 to 10 years) with congenital hearing loss. The corrected QT interval was measured from 12 lead electrocardiogram(ECG) , using Bazettes and Friedricia formulae.Th...

CONTEXT Mutations in the GJB2 gene are the most common known cause of inherited congenital severe-to-profound deafness. The carrier frequency of these mutations is not known. OBJECTIVES To determine the carrier rate of deafness-causing mutations in GJB2 in the midwestern United States and the prevalence of these mutations in persons with congenital sensorineural hearing loss ranging in severi...

Bengkala is an Indonesian village located on the north shore of Bali that has existed for over 700 years. Currently, 2.2% of the 2185 people in this village have profound congenital deafness. In response to the high incidence of deafness, the people of Bengkala have developed a village specific sign language which is used by many of the hearing and deaf people. Deafness in Bengkala is congenita...