Genetic Hearing Loss Overview

Review
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].

Excerpt

The purpose of this GeneReview is to:

  1. 1

    Describe the audiometric and clinical aspects of genetic hearing loss;

  2. 2

    Review the causes of genetic hearing loss;

  3. 3

    Review the differential diagnosis of genetic hearing loss;

  4. 4

    Explain the evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of hearing loss in a proband;

  5. 5

    Review the management of genetic hearing loss;

  6. 6

    Inform the genetic counseling of an individual with genetic hearing loss and their family members.

Publication types

  • Review