Abnormal findings in brainstem auditory evoked response at 36-37Â weeks of postconceptional age in babies with neonatal chronic lung disease

At 36-37 weeks of postconceptional age, BAER was abnormal in preterm infants who were diagnosed to have neonatal CLD. This suggests that at time when the diagnosis of CLD is made there is functional impairment, reflecting poor myelination, in the brainstem auditory pathway in preterm infants with neonatal CLD.