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Audiovestibular findings in patients with deafness caused by a mitochondrial susceptibility mutation and precipitated by an inherited nuclear mutation or aminoglycosides.
Archives of otolaryngology--head & neck surgery - 1 Sept 1996
Braverman I, Jaber L, Levi H, Adelman C, Arons K S, Fischel-Ghodsian N, Shohat M, Elidan J
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OBJECTIVE: To characterize the audiological and vestibular changes associated with a mitochondrial DNA mutation in an Arab-Israeli family and in other families with mitochondrial predisposition to aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. DESIGN: Evaluation of audiological (pure tone thresholds, speech reception thresholds, speech discrimination, tympanometry, acoustic reflex thresholds, tone decay, and auditory...
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