BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Menière disease and idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss can have overlapping clinical presentation and may have similar pathophysiology. Prior studies using postcontrast 3D-FLAIR MR imaging suggest abnormal blood-labyrinth barrier permeability in both conditions, but the 2 diseases have not been directly compared by using the same imaging techniques. We hypothesi...

Clarithromycin is a commonly used advanced generation macrolide. This case study reviews a case of an 81 year old woman who developed sensorineural deafness in the right ear after the start of low dose oral clarithromycin for an infective exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Despite cessation of this drug after only three days, the sensorineural deafness was found to be irreve...

Skin blood flow increases in response to local heat due to sensorineural and nitric oxide (NO)-mediated dilation. It has been previously demonstrated that arteriolar dilation is inhibited with NO synthase (NOS) blockade. Flow, nonetheless, increases with local heat. This implies that the previously unexamined nonarteriolar responses play a significant role in modulating flow. We thus hypothesiz...

It is well known that head trauma may cause hearing loss, which can be either conductive or sensorineural. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and olfactory dysfunction due to head trauma are also well known. The association between sensorineural hearing loss and anosmia, following head trauma, is extremely rare. Two rare cases of post-traumatic occurrence of hearing loss, olfactory dysfunctio...

Introduction: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss that developes after surgery which has been done under general anesthesia is quite rare and mostly occurs after otologic and coronary artery bypass surgery. Case-report: A 43 year old female patient who developed right sided hearing loss 6-7 h after a total thyroidectomy operation was diagnosed as sudden sensorineural hearing loss and treated succ...

Sensorineural hearing loss is currently the most important medical and social problem an urgent of neurology. According to various researchers, from 6% 36% worlds population suffers ear pathology, which 60-80% have sensorineural impairment (damage cochleo-vestibular nerve receptor - cochlea inner ear).Deafness common defect in sensory systems children occurs 1: 750 cases, adults 4-36% depending...

introduction: sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ssnhl) is a frightening and frustrating symptom for the patient as well as the physician. prognosis is affected by multiple factors including duration of hearing loss, presence of associated vertigo and tinnitus, and co-morbidities such as hypertension and diabetes.   materials and methods: forty subjects presenting to our department with feature...

I N T R O D U C T I O N Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a common finding with an exhaustive list of etiologies. Rapidly progressive sensorineural hearing loss is quite distressing to patients as they are abruptly required to function with a reduced level of sensation of their environment. Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) is a rare diagnosis and frequently omitted from the differential d...

We reported the recovery of sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus in a 22-year-old man after complete removal of intracranial portion of jugular foramen schwannoma via the retrosigmoid approach. The aim of this case report was to present the excision of a large jugular foramen schwannoma via the retrosigmoid approach and to describe the improvement of sensorineural hearing loss related to ara...