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Panel Presentations

Otology/Neurotology

Pediatric Single-Sided Deafness: Optimizing Outcomes

Sunday, September 29, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM EDT
Location: MBCC, 219-221
CME/MOC Credit: 1
Disclosure(s):
Jacqueline E. Weinstein, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Daniel M. Zeitler, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Kevin D. Brown, MD, PhD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Michael S. Cohen, MD:

faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss afflicts approximately 3-6% of children aged 6-19 years in the United States. Children with severe to profound unilateral sensorineural hearing loss or single-sided deafness (SSD), the most severely affected subset of these patients, experience significant difficulties in hearing in noise and sound localization. While the impact of absent binaural hearing on social, cognitive and educational measures has been well established, there is dearth of data and/or consensus-driven guidance for successful management of this population.

This multidisciplinary session will focus on evaluation, management of congenital SSD in the pediatric setting. Discussion will center on diagnostic criteria for congenital SSD, essential aspects of evaluation including imaging recommendations, role of CMV testing, and expanding genetic testing options. As there exists significant heterogeneity in management of these children, our program will seek to highlight appropriate audiologic candidacy for cochlear implantation, predictors of success following implantation, and disparities in access to hearing care in this community.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Define single-sided deafness and identify appropriate elements of workup (including radiologic, laboratory, genetic components) for these patients.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of audiologic criteria for cochlear implant candidacy in children >5 years of age with SSD.
  3. Analyze prognostic factors with regard to audiologic, speech-language, QOL outcomes in children with SSD following cochlear implantation
    Identify sources of disparities in access to hearing care in children with SSD.

    Moderator(s)

  • Jacqueline E. Weinstein, MD

    Associate Professor
    University of California San Francisco
    San Francisco, CA, United States

    Disclosure(s):

    faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

    • Panelist(s)

  • Daniel M. Zeitler, MD

    Co-Director, Listen for Life Center
    Virginia Mason
    Seattle, WA, United States

    Disclosure(s):

    faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Kevin D. Brown, MD, PhD

    Vice Chair and Joseph P. Riddle Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery
    UNC Hospital Otolaryngology
    Chapel Hill, NC, United States

    Disclosure(s):

    faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Michael S. Cohen, MD

    Assistant Professor
    Harvard/Mass Eye and Ear
    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Disclosure(s):

    faculty for this accredited education activity has no relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.