Misono S, Sie KCY, Weiss NS, Huang ML, Boeckh M, Norton SJ, Yueh B. Congenital cytomegalovirus infection in pediatric hearing loss.
ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011;
137:47-53. [PMID:
21242546 DOI:
10.1001/archoto.2010.235]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
To compare the prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in Washington State in children with hearing loss (HL) and the general population and to compare the characteristics of HL in children with and without congenital CMV infection.
DESIGN
Matched case-control; case cohort.
SETTING
Regional pediatric hospital, Washington State Department of Health (WSDOH).
PATIENTS
Cases were children 4 years and older with HL born in Washington State. Control individuals matched for demographic characteristics were identified at random through the WSDOH.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Congenital CMV status determined using quantitative polymerase chain reaction testing on newborn heel stick blood spots archived by the WSDOH. Audiologic data were used to characterize HL.
RESULTS
Congenital CMV testing was performed for 222 matched cases and controls. Congenital CMV infection was detected in 1.4% of controls and in 9.9% of cases (odds ratio, 10.5; 95% confidence interval, 2.6-92.4). An estimated 8.9% of HL in children in Washington can be attributed to CMV infection. After inclusion of an additional 132 children with HL (for a total of 354 cases in the case cohort), we observed that children with congenital CMV had more severe HL (P < .001) and higher proportions of progressive (P = .02) and unilateral (P = .002) HL compared with children without congenital CMV infection. In the 35 children with congenital CMV infection, there was no relationship between neonatal CMV load and severity of HL.
CONCLUSIONS
In Washington State, children with HL had a far higher prevalence of congenital CMV viremia than did the general pediatric population, and CMV infection seems to be responsible for an appreciable fraction of pediatric HL in Washington State.
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