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ELIAHU SHANON, MD
Tel-Aviv, Israel

Arch Otolaryngol. 1981;107(10):651.

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In Reply.—Our study of a family with Friedreich's ataxia was completed in the early months of 1980, and at that time we were not aware of an additional work on this subject.

Dr Satya-Murti and colleagues stressed the fact that they did not obtain any recognizable waves in their patients,² whereas we observed a consistent loss of N₁ responses early in the disease, a loss of N₃ later in the course of the disease, and a preservation of the more rostrally evoked auditory brainstem potentials.

The audiometric curve observed by Satya-Murti and colleagues did not show a specific pattern. In patient 4, for example, a high-frequency hearing loss was noted similar to that recorded in our patients. However, patient 1 had a dome-shaped audiometric curve analogous to that described by Spoendlin.₂

The idea raised by Satya-Murti and colleagues that the pathologic condition of the spiral . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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