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Musical Hallucinations in an Elderly Female With Hearing Loss
Jacqueline Cavendish1, Lynne J Goebel2
1Internal Medicine, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, Huntington, USA.
Abstract:
Musical hallucinations (MH) are rare auditory phenomena in which patients perceive music without a known source. Risk factors for MH include hearing loss, older age, female gender, epilepsy, and certain medications. This case report details the presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of an 82-year-old woman who developed MH following the onset of hearing loss. Despite treatment attempts with gabapentin, quetiapine, and donepezil, the symptoms persisted, demonstrating the difficulty in treating this condition.
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