| Abstract | Following surgery in the USA in 1992 to remove a large right cerebello-pontine angle tumour, a 39-year-old woman developed severe brainstem and cerebellar infarction. This left her with severe visual impairment and ataxia. She became able to communicate by means of an adapted finger-spelling alphabet. She had total hearing loss in the right ear and a mild to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss in the left ear, and severe tinnitus heard throughout the head. Additionally, she experienced hypersensitivity to sound above normal conversational levels, which evoked a synaesthetic feeling of coldness across her upper torso. Previous linear analogue hearing aid fitting had not been beneficial for either hearing or tinnitus. Careful fitting of a digital hearing aid, together with tinnitus counselling, inhibited the patient's tinnitus to 25 per cent of its former intensity after a six month acclimatisation period, and improved communication. |
| Authors | S Brewis, D M Baguley
(Affiliation: Department of Audiology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.)
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| Journal | The Journal of laryngology and otology
(J Laryngol Otol)
Vol. 121
Issue 4
Pg. 393-4
(Apr 2007)
ISSN: 1748-5460 England |
| PMID | 17403265
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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| Topics |
- Adult
- Brain Stem Infarctions
(complications)
- Cerebellar Neoplasms
(complications, surgery)
- Cerebellopontine Angle
- Cerebral Infarction
(complications)
- Female
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Loss
(etiology)
- Humans
- Meningioma
(complications, surgery)
- Tinnitus
(etiology, rehabilitation)
- Treatment Outcome
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