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Worsening nausea, vomiting, and dizziness for 2-months, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss. Pruritus. Ataxia. Mild hearing loss, with reoccurring episodes of falls.
BACKGROUND
Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody inducing depletion of B lymphocytes and presently approved for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis. Here is the first report of the use of this drug in a case of Cogan's syndrome (CS).
METHODS
a 25-year-old Italian woman was
A 36-year-old man was admitted to our university hospital, complaining of acute hearing loss of the right ear, which was his only hearing ear. He had developed complete deafness due to mumps in the left ear at the age of 26. Before admission, he had been diagnosed as having rubella infection. He
OBJECTIVE
To report new disease components in a unique myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) family previously described by us in which all affected members also had a sensorimotor neuropathy that co-segregated with markers flanking the DM1 locus.
METHODS
Clinical observations, electrophysiology,
We report a 43-year-old woman who suffered from Listeria monocytogenes meningitis. She was admitted to our hospital because of headache, nausea, vomiting, and fever. On admission she had no abnormal neurological signs except for severe nuchal stiffness. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination on the
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Common side effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) include tachycardia, drowsiness, tremor, nausea, and vomiting. Although SSRIs have less toxic side effects compared to more traditional antidepressants, serious and life threatening cases of SSRI overdose have been
Musical hallucinations (MHs), characterized by the hearing of tunes, melodies, or songs, is a relatively under-recognized phenomenon among elderly individuals with hearing impairment. In some patients, MHs represent a complex psychopathological phenomenon, hallucinatory in content and
Carbamazepine is a commonly prescribed anticonvulsant medication that affects various levels of the nervous system. We report a case of temporary sensorineural hearing loss in a patient after overdosing with 36 g of carbamazepine. Six days after the overdose, the patient complained of bilateral
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the etiologies and clinical features for bilateral acute sensorineural hearing loss (bi-ASNHL).
METHODS
The clinical data of 19 cases presenting with bi-ASNHL were retrospectively analyzed, including the clinical features, systemic examinations, laboratory examinations,
The sudden onset of hearing impairment or hearing loss can be a characteristic sign of a vertebrobasilar circulatory disturbance. We report on a 65 year old male patient with an acute left-sided tinnitus followed by hearing loss as an initial symptom of an infarction of the left anterior inferior
BACKGROUND
Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) is characterised by sudden loss of hearing of cochlear or retro-cochlear origin without an identifiable cause. Antivirals are commonly prescribed, but there is no consensus on the treatment regimen or their effectiveness.
OBJECTIVE
To
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss may be present as a symptom in systemic autoimmune diseases or may occur as a primary disorder without another organ involvement (autoimmune inner ear disease). The diagnosis of autoimmune inner ear disease is still predicated on clinical features, and to date
Cerebellopontine angle arachnoid cysts are usually asymptomatic, but are frequently found incidentally because of increased use of neuroimaging. Nevertheless, as these cysts enlarge, they may compress surrounding structures and cause neurological symptoms. Patients may present with vague,
Hearing complaints have been described in patients after lumbar puncture, although other symptoms like headache, nausea, and dizziness can easily obscure hearing disorders. Reduced cerebrospinal fluid pressure after lumbar puncture may explain the origin of this vestibulocochlear dysfunction. Two
The hallmarks of symptomatic human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME) include fever, headache, myalgia, nausea, malaise, transaminitis, and blood cell abnormalities. Previous case reports have described isolated cranial nerve palsies in infected patients but not hearing loss. We describe the onset of