Genetic deafness and Pendred syndrome
Ayerbe, I.; Négrevergne, M.; Sanchez Fernandez, J.M.; Ucelay, R.; Albisu, Y.
Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 118(2): 113-117
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 9297919 Document Number: 482208
The authors present two cases of genetic deafness in a brother and his sister. The girl has shown to suffer from a deafness belonging to Pendred's syndrome; in this case, the development of hearing symptomatology since her puberty is presented as an aggravated crisis of deafness and tinnitus coinciding with her menstruation, what suggests a possible endolymphatic hydrops depending of hormonal factors; the lack of knowledge about the ethyopatogenic mechanisms in this field generates therapeutic difficulties hard to solve.