Hearing Screening an Imperative for HIV Patients

摘要

Could Paul's hearing loss be associated with his HIV, either with the disease itself, opportunistic infections, or side effects from his ARVs? If so, how? Those are questions that specialists in hearing and HIV health care are now striving to answer because there is surprisingly little research on the subject.If you ask most infectious disease specialists, they will probably say that people living with HIV are more likely to have hearing problems than those who are not HIV-positive. "The idea that hearing impairment may be associated with HIV isn't new," said Jay Buckey, MD, a professor of medicine and an adjunct professor of engineering at Dartmouth Medical School. "Even in the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic, people would present with hearing problems, often because of an inner ear infection.