title: Cochlear implantation in neurobrucellosis.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey. alpin.guneri@deu.edu.tr
authors.forename: E Alpin
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Guneri
authors.forename: Gunay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kirkim
authors.forename: Bulent M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Serbetcioglu
authors.forename: Taner K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Erdag
authors.forename: Ataman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guneri
mesh_terms: 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