Causes of Severe Deafness in Schoolchildren in Northumberland and Durham

Barton, M.; Court, S. D. M.; Walker, William O.

doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5275.351

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“…after an epidemic year, and that there may be 20-30'",, of children in whom no cause for the deafness can be found. Similar figures for children with severe preceptive deafness without obvious cause have been reported by Barton et al (1962).…”

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Congenital Perceptive Deafness: Role of Intrauterine Rubella

Gumpel¹,

Hayes²,

Dudgeon³

1971

BMJ

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SummaryRubella antibody was detected in 85 (61%) of 139 children aged from 6 months to 7 years with congenital perceptive deafness. Of the 112 children who were aged under 4 years 61 (54%) had rubella antibody (seropositive) compared with 7-1% in randomly selected children of the same age. A close correlation was found between the presence of antibody in children with perceptive deafness and (1) a maternal history of rash or contact in early pregnancy, and (2) with the presence of other rubella-type defects. Intrauterine rubella was thought to be the cause of the deafness in 82 (59%) of the 139 children, in 60 of whom deafness was the only rubella defect detected. Thus intrauterine rubella should be considered a likely cause of congenital perceptive deafness in a child under 4 years in whom rubella antibody is present.

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Congenital Perceptive Deafness: Role of Intrauterine Rubella

Gumpel¹,

Hayes²,

Dudgeon³

1971

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“…Deafness sufficient to require special schooling is very uncommon. The Ministry of Education (1946) has estimated a prevalence of 0 7 to 1 per 1,000 in children of school age; Barton, Court and Walker (1962) in a survey in Northumberland and Durham found a rate of 0 7 per 1,000: in this survey deafness was thought to be hereditary in 25 %, to have followed meningitis or some other infection in a further 25 %, but in 50% of children the cause was unknown. Rubella in early pregnancy and severe haemolytic disease of the newborn each accounted for less than 1 % of the total.…”

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Deafness in Children of Very Low Birth Weight

McDonald¹

1964

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…Other workers have found an association between deafness and prematurity varying between 17% (Gerrard, 1952) and 23% (Johnsen, 1952). An incidence of severe deafness in 1-7 out of every 1,000 premature infants who survived in the Northumberland and Durham area was reported by Barton, Court and Walker (1962).…”

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Deafness in Children

Wolman¹

1963

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Causes of Severe Deafness in Schoolchildren in Northumberland and Durham

Cited by 34 publications

References 11 publications

Congenital Perceptive Deafness: Role of Intrauterine Rubella

Congenital Perceptive Deafness: Role of Intrauterine Rubella

Deafness in Children of Very Low Birth Weight

Deafness in Children

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