Cochlear implantation in neurobrucellosis.
OBJECTIVE
To report the first successful cochlear implantation (CI) in neurobrucellosis.


METHODS
A patient with bilateral total sensorineural hearing loss and other neurologic sequela due to neurobrucellosis from a country in which the disease is epidemic was successfully rehabilitated with CI.


METHODS
Clinical, laboratory, radiodiagnostics, and audiological.


METHODS
Sensorineural hearing loss due to neurobrucellosis may be the result of an injury anywhere along the auditory pathway, and candidacy for CI should be thoroughly evaluated and promontory stimulation test seems to be most helpful in this regard.


RESULTS
Cochlear implantation may be successful in patients with sensorineural hearing loss due to neurobrucellosis.


CONCLUSIONS
Positive promontory stimulation test is useful for selecting patients for CI deafened by neurobrucellosis.
Guneri
E Alpin
EA
Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey. alpin.guneri@deu.edu.tr
Kirkim
Gunay
G
Serbetcioglu
Bulent M
BM
Erdag
Taner K
TK
Guneri
Ataman
A
D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000150:complications*; D019929:Cochlear Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D020336:Paraparesis, Spastic / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D013686:Telemetry