Tag: Heart Surgery In Infants

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Infants with heart operation risk deafness

New York: Children who have undergone heart surgery as infants may risk hearing loss by the age of four, in addition to poor language skills and cognitive problems, researchers have found. Researchers discovered that around 21 per cent of 348 pre-schoolers, who had survived cardiac surgery, suffered hearing loss. This rate was 20 times higher […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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