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Sensorineural hearing loss in Ghanaians with sickle cell anaemia
1Department of Physiology, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra.
Tropical and Geographical Medicine
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
The prevalence of haemoglobin S in Ghana is well documented. A study seeking to determine the prevalence of sensorineural deafness in Ghanaian sickle cell anaemia patients was conducted. About 29% of the SS-patients studied showed hearing losses ranging from 30 to 60 dB in the high frequency range of 4 to 8 kHz. This observation was favourable compared to those made by different workers among geographically different populations.