RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sensorineural hearing loss in neurobrucellosis
JF Neurosciences Journal
JO Neurosciences (Riyadh)
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 299
OP 301
VO 13
IS 3
A1 Sengoz, Gonul
A1 Yasar, Kadriye K.
A1 Yildirim, Filiz
A1 Nazlican, Ozcan
YR 2008
UL http://nsj.org.sa/content/13/3/299.abstract
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.