Citation

Kaga K, Ichimura K, Kitazumi E, Kodama K, Tamai F. Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. 1996; 36(3): 231-239.

Affiliation

Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8864806

Abstract

We studied auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) of sixteen infants and children with brain damage after anoxic accidents due to near-suffocation or near-drowning. The patients manifested cerebral palsy, mental retardation and/or epilepsy and showed poor responses in the behavioral audiometry. Auditory brainstem responses were abnormal in five of the patients in the near-drowning group (waves I, II and III only were present in three patients and the amplitudes of waves IV and V were low in two patients) but normal in most of the patients in the near-suffocation group. This difference in the ABRs between the two groups suggest that in infants and children anoxic brain damage due to near-drowning might involve not only the cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter but also the upper brainstem and midbrain.

Language: en