PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gonul Sengoz
AU  - Kadriye K. Yasar
AU  - Filiz Yildirim
AU  - Ozcan Nazlican
TI  - Sensorineural hearing loss in neurobrucellosis
DP  - 2008 Jul 01
TA  - Neurosciences Journal
PG  - 299--301
VI  - 13
IP  - 3
4099  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/13/3/299.short
4100  - http://nsj.org.sa/content/13/3/299.full
SO  - Neurosciences (Riyadh)2008 Jul 01; 13
AB  - Neurobrucellosis (NB) is a rare clinical presentation of brucellosis. This form is hard to diagnose because of a lack of definite diagnostic criteria, and its treatment is also hard. The clinical spectrum may cover a span between non-specific neurological symptoms to a severe meningoencephalitis. We report 3 patients with NB, whose main complaint was sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) who were followed up at our hospital for 3 years. We diagnosed NB by positive CSF cultures in 2 patients and by a positive brucella IgG agglutination titer in blood and CSF in the third. Sensorineural hearing loss is a rare complication of NB, which has not attracted enough attention among known manifestations. Neurologists and otologists should be aware of this symptom as a probable clinical presentation of brucellosis.