Effects of weight and gestational age on infants’ auditory pathway
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-2724.2021v33i3p537-544Keywords:
Infant, Newborn, Hearing, Electrophysiology, Birth weight, Hearing disordersAbstract
Introduction: Infants born with low birth weight in relation to their gestational age are more prone to neonatal and infant morbidity and mortality. Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAEP) is a useful tool to investigate the neuroelectric activity of the auditory pathway of brainstem. Objective: To investigate the birth weight and gestational age effect on the infants’ auditory pathway. Methods: cross-sectional study, conducted in a public hospital from January 2017 to December 2018 composed by small-for-gestational-age (SGA) born infants in the study group, and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) infants, as control group. Both groups were similar in relation to gestational age, risk indicators for hearing loss, and age at the moment of audiological evaluation. All of them were submitted to the exams of transient otoacoustic emissions and BAEP. Results: 172 infants participated, with an average age of 1.3 months for those born SGA and 1.5 months for AGA. In the evaluation using the BAEP, there was a significant increase only in the values of the absolute latencies; however, the median values of both absolute and interpeak latencies were similar between them. Conclusion: The birth weight and gestational age effect in infants born weighing less than the 10th percentile, did not demonstrate impairment on the auditory pathway in the first month of life.
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