Clinical Predictors of Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Cognitive Outcome in Infants with Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

From the *Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center/Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; †Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Brookwood Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama; and; ‡Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

Published: August 2016

The objective of this study was to determine newborn clinical findings predictive of adverse clinical outcomes in infants with symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus infection. Of 160 infants, significantly more children with central nervous system involvement had sensorineural hearing loss (P = 0.0007) and an IQ ≤70 (P < 0.0001) compared with infants with transient findings or only a petechial rash.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4979986PMC
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