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Neuro-rehabilitation Approach for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Published on: January 25, 2016
Sequential bilateral hearing loss in multiple sclerosis
Young-Mi Oh1, Dong-Hoon Oh, Seong-Hae Jeong
1Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
Objectives:
We describe a case of multiple sclerosis presenting with sequential bilateral hearing loss.
Methods:
A 46-year-old woman underwent a series of audiological and neurologic evaluations for sequential bilateral hearing losses that occurred 6 months apart.
Results:
Initially, the patient suffered from sudden left hearing loss, and magnetic resonance imaging documented an enhancing lesion in the left middle cerebellar peduncle. Six months later, another episode of sudden vertigo, right hearing loss, and right facial palsy developed. Magnetic resonance imaging disclosed a new lesion in the right middle cerebellar peduncle.
Conclusions:
Sequential bilateral hearing loss may be a manifestation of multiple sclerosis. In younger patients with sudden hearing loss, multiple sclerosis should be included in the differential diagnosis.
