Venous hum as a cause of reversible factitious sensorineural hearing loss.
Self-heard venous hums have been previously documented and recognized as one cause of audible pulsatile tinnitus. A patient presented with a right internal jugular venous hum causing audible tinnitus and a right sensorineural hearing loss, both of which resolved after high ligation of the right internal jugular vein. We speculate that the hearing loss measured initially was factitious and represented a masking effect due to the venous hum.
D000328:Adult; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008026:Ligation; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000209:etiology*