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Clinical picture of bilateral vestibular schwannomas, sudden bilateral hearing loss, and aviation [PDF]
A 17-year-old girl, with no known medical history, woke 4 hours after a transatlantic air flight complaining of bilateral hearing loss, headache, and severe vertigo. Brain MRI revealed bilateral enhancing cerebellopontine angle masses and brainstem compression (figure). Histology confirmed these masses as schwannomas. …
Daniel G, Healy, Nicholas W, Wood
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Exostosis of the internal auditory canal: A rare growth causing hearing loss?
Introduction: Osteomas and exostosis of the internal auditory canal are rare slow growing bony tumours that can present with a wide variety of symptoms from hearing loss to sinusitis.
Moshin Khan +2 more
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Multiple Cranial Nerve Involvement in a Complex Case of MISME Syndrome in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report [PDF]
Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is characterised by numerous tumours in the central and peripheral nervous systems due to NF2 gene abnormalities that cause the tumour suppressor protein, Merlin, to disappear. Often referred to as Multiple Inherited Schwannomas,
Afwaan Faizal +4 more
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Compensation following bilateral vestibular damage
Bilateral loss of vestibular inputs affects far fewer patients than unilateral inner ear damage, and thus has been understudied. In both animal subjects and human patients, bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH) produces a variety of clinical problems,
Bill J Yates, Andrew A McCall
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The Video Head Impulse Test in a Case of Suspected Bilateral Loss of Vestibular Function
Introduction A patient who had no symptoms suggestive of bilateral loss of vestibular function presented no responses in rotational and caloric tests. Objectives To demonstrate the importance of the video head impulse test in neuro-otologic ...
Pedro L. Mangabeira Albernaz +1 more
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Hearing loss and chronic vestibular pathologies require brain adaptive mechanisms supported by a cross-modal cortical plasticity. They are often accompanied by cognitive deficits.
Giorgio Guidetti +2 more
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Nystagmus in enlarged vestibular aqueduct: a case series
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) is one of the commonly identified congenital temporal bone abnormalities associated with sensorineural hearing loss.
Judith White, Paul Krakovitz
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Common and uncommon audio-vestibular findings in COVID-19 patients
Background COVID-19 is the new version of the old coronavirus known since 1960, which caused the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) in 2012 and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Symptoms included fever and cough, diarrhea and
Ebtessam Hamed Nada +2 more
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Vestibular function in bilateral idiopathic progressive sensorineural hearing loss.
To investigate vestibular function in patients with bilateral progressive sensorineural hearing loss (BPSHL), we examined 5 cases using electronystagmography. Cases 1, 2 and 3 were adult type, cases 4 and 5 were juvenile type. All patients had dizzy spells in the early stage of the disease, and showed spontaneous nystagmus.
H, Ichijo +3 more
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Bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP) is defined as the impairment or loss of function of either the labyrinths or the eighth nerves. Patients with total BVP due to bilateral vestibular nerve section exhibit difficulties in spatial memory and navigation and ...
Olympia eKremmyda +11 more
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