Related articles: Hearing loss
Definition
Hearing impairment. Hearing loss can be unilateral or bilateral (when it affects both ears).Possible Causes * of Hearing Loss
- Achondroplasia
- Hypertrophic adenoids
- adenoiditis
- Fanconi anemia
- Lassa fever
- Herpes zoster oticus
- Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV)
- Carbon monoxide intoxication
- Ichthyosis
- labyrinthitis
- Kawasaki disease
- Mastoiditis
- Meningioma
- Miringite
- Paget's disease
- Acoustic neurinoma
- Neurofibromatosis
- Vestibular neuronitis
- Imperfect osteogenesis
- osteopetrosis
- Ear infection
- Barotraumatic otitis
- otosclerosis
- cleft palate
- Infant Cerebral Palsy
- Spastic paraparesis
- Mumps
- Progeria
- Rubella
- Syphilis
- Decompression syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Ménière syndrome
- Reye syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- Feto-alcohol syndrome
- Tonsillitis
- Trisomy 13
- Trisomy 18
