title: Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and labyrinthitis ossificans secondary to neurosarcoidosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a case of cochlear ossification as a result of neurosarcoidosis in a patient with bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report: Setting University teaching hospital, tertiary referral center.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-year-old man with neurosarcoidosis and bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss. Intervention Unilateral cochlear implantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Aided thresholds speech perception tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Marked improvement in hearing following implant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients with neurosarcoidosis are at risk of labyrinthitis ossificans. Early imaging of these patients is recommended and if early cochlear ossification is identified they should be offered rapid access to rehabilitation with a cochlear implant.
authors.forename: Hardeep
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dhanjal
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rainsbury
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Irving
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D003051:Cochlea / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007762:Labyrinthitis / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications*; D013067:Speech Perception
keywords: Cochlear implant; Cochlear implantation; Hearing loss; Labyrinthitis ossificans; Neurosarcoidosis; Sensorineural hearing loss