Hearing Outcomes in Patients with Cleft Lip/Palate
Objective Children with cleft lip and palate or cleft palate only have a high incidence of conductive hearing loss from otitis media with effusion. Studies demonstrating longitudinal results are lacking. This study was undertaken to investigate long-term longitudinal hearing outcomes of children wit...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal 2015-03, Vol.52 (2), p.23-31 |
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Children with cleft lip and palate or cleft palate only have a high incidence of conductive hearing loss from otitis media with effusion. Studies demonstrating longitudinal results are lacking. This study was undertaken to investigate long-term longitudinal hearing outcomes of children with cleft lip and/or cleft palate and cleft palate only.
Design
Retrospective chart review.
Setting
Clinical charts of patients born with cleft lip and palate or cleft palate only in 1985 to 1994 who were referred to the cleft team in Bergen, Norway. Study findings include 15 years of follow-up.
Participants
The study population consisted of 317 children of whom 159 had nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate and 158 had nonsyndromic cleft palate.
Main Outcome Measures
Pure tone average calculated from pure tone audiometry at ages 4, 6, and 15 years.
Results
The median pure tone average significantly improved with increasing age. For the cleft lip and palate group, the median pure tone average at ages 4, 6, and 15 years was 16 dB hearing level (HL), 13 dB HL, and 9 dB HL, respectively (P ≤ .001). In the cleft palate group the median pure tone average at ages 4, 6, and 15 years was 15 dB HL, 12 dB HL, and 9 dB HL, respectively (P ≤ .001). There was no significant difference in the hearing levels between the two groups. Patients who had surgical closure of the palate at age 18 months had a significantly better pure tone average outcome at age 15 compared with patients who had surgery at 12 months.
Conclusions
Hearing improves significantly from childhood to adolescence in patients with cleft lip and palate and cleft palate only. |
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ISSN: | 1055-6656 1545-1569 |
DOI: | 10.1597/13-009 |