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[A patient with hereditary spherocystosis and sudden deafness after splenectomy]
F J García Callejo1, A Morant Ventura, M M Velert Vila
1Servicio de ORL, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola
|June 27, 2003
Abstract:
We report the case of a 29 year-old male with of hereditary spherocytosis, who developed two episodes of sensorineural hearing loss in his right ear after splenectomy due to repetitive hemolytic crisis. We discuss the eventual altiopathogenic mechanism of this audiological disorder.