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A case report of fluctuant sensorineural hearing loss after hepatitis B vaccination
B Biacabe1, M Erminy, P Bonfils
1CNRS UMR and Formation Associée Claude Bernard, Boucicaut Hospital, University Paris, France.
Auris, Nasus, Larynx
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
Hepatitis B vaccine is known to induce accidents and side-effects. We report a case of unilateral fluctuant sensorineural hearing loss with tinnitus after a series of hepatitis B vaccinations. Tinnitus regressed and hearing thresholds were normalized 6 months later. The authors discuss the potential causality of hepatitis B vaccine in the occurrence of fluctuant sensorineural hearing loss and propose a physiopathological hypothesis to explain this unusual case.