Enlarged vestibular aqueduct: Looking for genotypic-phenotypic correlations

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2006 Nov;263(11):971-6. doi: 10.1007/s00405-006-0095-x. Epub 2006 Jul 8.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide a guide for clinical and genetic diagnosis and classification of the enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome based on a review of the literature and computerized databases with the words large and enlarged vestibular aqueduct. No more than 40 articles described association between the EVA phenotype and a known genetic alteration. Pendred's syndrome, distal renal tubular acidosis, waardenburg's syndrome, X-linked congenital mixed deafness, branchio-oto-renal syndrome, and oto-facio-cervical syndrome can express their genotypic alteration as enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome. We also found articles reporting familiar cases of enlarged vestibular aqueduct with no identified mutations in studied genes.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Genotype
  • Hearing Loss / genetics*
  • Hearing Loss / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Phenotype
  • Vestibular Aqueduct / abnormalities*