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Title: | Vestibular Infant Screening (VIS)–Flanders: results after 1.5 years of vestibular screening in hearing-impaired children | Authors: | Martens, Sarie Dhooge, Ingeborg Dhondt, Cleo Vanaudenaerde, Saartje Sucaet, Marieke Rombaut, Lotte Boudewyns, An Desloovere, Christian JANSSENS DE VAREBEKE, Sebastien Vinck, Anne-Sophie Vanspauwen, Robby Verschueren, Dominique Foulon, Ina Staelens, Charlotte VAN DEN BROECK, Karen De Valck, Claudia Deggouj, Naima LEMKENS, Nele Haverbeke, Lisa De Bock, Mieke Öz, Okan Declau, Frank Devroede, Benoit Verhoye, Christoph Maes, Leen |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | NATURE RESEARCH | Source: | Scientific reports (Nature Publishing Group), 10 (1) (Art N° 21011) | Abstract: | Due to the close anatomical relationship between the auditory and vestibular end organs, hearing-impaired children have a higher risk for vestibular dysfunction, which can affect their (motor) development. Unfortunately, vestibular dysfunction often goes unnoticed, as vestibular assessment in these children is not standard of care nowadays. To timely detect vestibular dysfunction, the Vestibular Infant Screening-Flanders (VIS-Flanders) project has implemented a basic vestibular screening test for hearing-impaired infants in Flanders (Belgium) with a participation rate of 86.7% during the first year and a half. The cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (cVEMP) test was applied as vestibular screening tool to map the occurrence of vestibular (mainly saccular) dysfunction in this population. At the age of 6 months, 184 infants were screened. No refers on vestibular screening were observed in infants with permanent conductive hearing loss. In infants with permanent sensorineural hearing loss, a cVEMP refer rate of 9.5% was observed. Failure was significantly more common in infants with severe-profound compared to those with mild-moderate | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/34611 | ISSN: | 2045-2322 | e-ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-78049-z | ISI #: | WOS:000615394300011 | Rights: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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