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Coronavirus – Case Report

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss with intralabyrinthine hemorrhage after COVID-19 vaccination

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Article: 2097462 | Received 21 May 2022, Accepted 30 Jun 2022, Published online: 06 Jul 2022
 

ABSTRACT

Otologic symptoms of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) have been reported after Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations. However, the association between SSNHL and COVID-19 vaccination has not been clearly established. SSNHL with vertigo can be induced by intralabyrinthine hemorrhage (ILH). The case of a 61-year-old female who was diagnosed SSNHL with ILH after COVID-19 vaccination is presented here. She visited the emergency department for left sudden hearing loss and vertigo that had occurred the previous day. She had received a third booster COVID-19 mRNA vaccination one day prior to the visit; symptoms occurred 6 hours after vaccination. On pure tone audiometry, her hearing threshold indicated deafness in the left ear. A lesion assumed to be ILH was observed on temporal magnetic resonance imaging. She received an oral steroid followed by salvage treatment with intratympanic steroid injection. Three months after symptom onset, her hearing threshold remained deaf with slight improvement at low frequencies in the left ear. Because the symptoms of and prognosis for SSNHL may be worse and vertigo may occur in patients with SSNHL and ILH, careful treatment is required.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the patient for contribution to the case report.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Ethical approval

The Institutional Review Board of the National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital exempted the review of this study (NHIMC 2022-01-028). Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board because of the retrospective nature of the study.

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Funding

This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (Ministry of Science and ICT; 2019R1F1A1062649)