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**Objective**: To determine the risk of conductive hearing loss in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and preterm controls. **Methodology**: The study population consisted of 78 infants with BPD of 26–33 weeks gestation and 78 controls of similar gestational age matched for broad‐based birthweight categories. An auditory brainstem response (ABR) audiology was performed shortly before hospital discharge. Visual reinforcement orientation audiometry (VROA) and impedance audiometry were performed at 8–12 months corrected for prematurity. Infants with persistent audiological abnormalities were referred for evaluation to paediatric ENT surgeons. **Results**: Infants with BPD had a significantly higher rate of ABR abnormalities (BPD: 22%, controls: 9%; __P__ = 0.028). On VROA and impedance audiometry, the infants with BPD also had a higher rate of persistent abnormalities. Following ENT assessment, 22.1% of infants with BPD and 7.7% of controls had persistent conductive dysfunction requiring myringotomy and grommet tube insertion (__P__ = 0.03). Most of these infants had normal ABR audiometry at hospital discharge. **Conclusions**: Preterm infants with BPD are at high r

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Author

PH Gray; S Sarkar; J Young; YM Rogers

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1034-4810)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)