Audiovestibular Findings in Patients With Deafness Caused by a Mitochondrial Susceptibility Mutation and Precipitated by an Inherited Nuclear Mutation or Aminoglycosides

Abstract

In most of the Arab-Israeli patients with congenital deafness, the vestibular system function was normal, in contrast to the frequency of vestibular abnormality among deaf children, which was described in the literature. This may be related to genetic predisposition to aminoglycoside-induced deafness.