One case of a pregnant femal taking realgar induceing congenital inner ear malformation.
- Author:
Mingfang DIAO
;
Jianjun SUN
;
Yang LIU
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- MeSH:
Arsenicals;
adverse effects;
Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem;
Female;
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural;
chemically induced;
congenital;
Hearing Tests;
Humans;
Infant;
Maternal Exposure;
adverse effects;
Pregnancy;
Semicircular Canals;
pathology;
Sulfides;
adverse effects;
Temporal Bone;
pathology
- From:
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2015;29(15):1390-1391
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
A pregnant female taken realgar because of superstition, which caused the baby congenital deafness. Auditory test indicated that bilateral auditory brainstem response (ABR) hearing threshold level was greater than 90 dB nHL and auditory steady state response (ASSR) hearing level ranging from 0.5 kHz to 4 kHz was beyond 110 dB HL. Temporal bone CT showed that bilateral cochlear and semicircular canal malformations, with internal auditory canal broadened.
