Intratympanic steroid treatments rescued recurrent hearing loss following COVID-19 vaccination and detection of an intralabyrinthine schwannoma.
Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology
Oncology
Vaccination/immunisation
Journal
BMJ case reports
ISSN: 1757-790X
Titre abrégé: BMJ Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101526291
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 Jul 2022
06 Jul 2022
Historique:
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2022
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2022
medline:
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2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
It remains unclear how to effectively treat rare cases of sudden and recurrent hearing losses which might coincidently follow vaccination. We report the first case, to our knowledge, of systemic and local steroid administration to successfully treat sudden and recurrent left-ear hearing loss, respectively, following a second dose of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 mRNA vaccination which inflammatory response potentially affected an existing left intralabyrinthine schwannoma in a young male patient. This case highlights the importance and timing of intratympanic steroid treatment strategies to suppress the progressive symptoms and restore hearing to a stable condition, and therefore avoid permanent hearing loss which would otherwise demand a surgical removal of the schwannoma to improve vertigo and reconstitute artificial hearing.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35793841
pii: 15/7/e249316
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2022-249316
pmc: PMC9260791
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doi:
Substances chimiques
COVID-19 Vaccines
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Steroids
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BNT162 Vaccine
N38TVC63NU
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : NCATS NIH HHS
ID : UL1 TR001422
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interests: None declared.
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