[Sjögren's syndrome: Audiological and clinical behaviour in terms of age].

Introduction And Objective: To determine the clinical and audiological behaviour per age group in Sjögren's Syndrome (SS), considering that it is the second most frequent autoimmune rheumatic disease.

Material And Method: The study included 29 patients with SS with clinical history and audiological studies. The design was prospective, descriptive and transversal.

Results: Average patient age was 41 years. All the patients with hearing loss in conventional tone audiometry were of the sensory type. At high frequencies, 66% of the patients did not respond at 20 KHz, and 48% at the frequency of 16 KHz. In logoaudiometry and impedancemetry, the results were the ones expected for the auditory thresholds.

Conclusions: Auditory damage related to SS is located in the inner ear. Patients must be informed by their physician of the risk of having auditory damage as a complication of the disease. Audiological evaluation must be performed periodically to identify possible audiological damage.