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[From gene to disease; a progressive cochlear-vestibular dysfunction with onset in middle-age (DFNA9)].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 19 Nov 2005
Cremers C W R, Kemperman M H, Bom S J H, Huygen P L M, Verhagen W I M, Kremer J M J
Abstract excerpt
DFNA9 is an autosomal dominant genetic inner-ear hearing impairment that starts to show itself in the 3rd and 4th decades of life. This hearing impairment may be of a different degree of severity in each ear. Progression of hearing loss is about 3 dB/year. In about one in three patients severe vestibular symptoms similar to those in Ménière's disease are present as a result of a progressive impairment of the...
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