Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike
In most of the surviving patients after a lightning strike, audiovestibular abnormalities have been reported. The most frequently reported type of abnormalities is a tympanic membrane perforation with hearing loss and external ear canal burn. However a sensor neural hearing loss and mixed type heari...
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| description | In most of the surviving patients after a lightning strike, audiovestibular abnormalities have been reported. The most frequently reported type of abnormalities is a tympanic membrane perforation with hearing loss and external ear canal burn. However a sensor neural hearing loss and mixed type hearing loss can also occur, but these occur rarely. A nineteen-year-old female patient had, after a lightning strike, serious burns on the left ear, behind the ear, and on the chest and neck. She also had in her left ear 108 dB hearing loss with irregular central perforation and in her right ear 52 dB sensorineural hearing loss. There was no hearing loss before the strike. A hearing aid was recommended for the right ear and good care and follow-up were recommended for the left ear. A lightning strike can cause serious audiological damage. Therefore, it is necessary to make a careful audiovestibular evaluation of the patients. Although there exist rarely healed cases from sensorineural hearing loss after lightning strike in literature, in our case hearing loss occurred bilaterally and then it healed unilaterally. This condition is quite rare in literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-635c3cb7940e468ca643f032cd4a1cf22025-08-20T02:35:15ZengWileyCase Reports in Otolaryngology2090-67652090-67732015-01-01201510.1155/2015/738416738416Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning StrikeMahfuz Turan0Ferhat Kalkan1Nazım Bozan2İsa Özçalimli3Mehmet Zeki Erdem4Abdülaziz Yalınkılıç5Mehmet Fatih Garca6Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otolaryngology, Training and Research Hospital, Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty, Yüzüncü Yıl University, 65040 Van, TurkeyIn most of the surviving patients after a lightning strike, audiovestibular abnormalities have been reported. The most frequently reported type of abnormalities is a tympanic membrane perforation with hearing loss and external ear canal burn. However a sensor neural hearing loss and mixed type hearing loss can also occur, but these occur rarely. A nineteen-year-old female patient had, after a lightning strike, serious burns on the left ear, behind the ear, and on the chest and neck. She also had in her left ear 108 dB hearing loss with irregular central perforation and in her right ear 52 dB sensorineural hearing loss. There was no hearing loss before the strike. A hearing aid was recommended for the right ear and good care and follow-up were recommended for the left ear. A lightning strike can cause serious audiological damage. Therefore, it is necessary to make a careful audiovestibular evaluation of the patients. Although there exist rarely healed cases from sensorineural hearing loss after lightning strike in literature, in our case hearing loss occurred bilaterally and then it healed unilaterally. This condition is quite rare in literature.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/738416 |
| spellingShingle | Mahfuz Turan Ferhat Kalkan Nazım Bozan İsa Özçalimli Mehmet Zeki Erdem Abdülaziz Yalınkılıç Mehmet Fatih Garca Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike Case Reports in Otolaryngology |
| title | Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike |
| title_full | Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike |
| title_fullStr | Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike |
| title_full_unstemmed | Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike |
| title_short | Isolated Sensorineural Hearing Loss as a Sequela after Lightning Strike |
| title_sort | isolated sensorineural hearing loss as a sequela after lightning strike |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/738416 |
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