Cortical deafness: a case report and review of the literature.
| Autor: | Brody RM; Department of Otolaryngology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA., Nicholas BD, Wolf MJ, Marcinkevich PB, Artz GJ |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology [Otol Neurotol] 2013 Sep; Vol. 34 (7), pp. 1226-9. |
| DOI: | 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31829763c4 |
| Abstrakt: | Objective: To review the literature regarding cortical hearing loss and document a case of cortical hearing loss including its presentation, diagnosis, and evolution over 32 months of follow-up. Patient: A 56-year-old woman with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss secondary to sequential hemorrhagic, temporal lobe infarctions separated in time by 8 months. Intervention: Diagnostic. Results: Sequential infarctions affecting the patient's auditory radiations and primary auditory cortices bilaterally combined to cause cortical hearing loss. At presentation, audiogram revealed a bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss with no reliable responses to pure-tone or speech audiometry. She has subsequently recovered the ability to distinguish environmental sounds. At her 32-month follow-up, she had a pure-tone average (PTA) of 62 dB on the right and 70 dB on the left but continued to display a poor word recognition score (0%). A literature review was performed from the year 1891 until the present. Conclusion: Cortical deafness is an exceedingly rare entity. Presentation and recovery of hearing are dependent on the extent of the initial lesions. The majority of patients can expect improvements in pure-tone auditory thresholds over time; however patients should be counseled that recovery of the ability to understand speech is unlikely. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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