OBJECTIVE: To report the first successful cochlear implantation (CI) in neurobrucellosis. PATIENT: 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. INTERVENTIONS: Clinical, laboratory, radiodiagnostics, and audiological. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 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. CONCLUSION: Positive promontory stimulation test is useful for selecting patients for CI deafened by neurobrucellosis.
OBJECTIVE: To report the first successful cochlear implantation (CI) in neurobrucellosis. PATIENT: 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. INTERVENTIONS: Clinical, laboratory, radiodiagnostics, and audiological. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: 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. CONCLUSION: Positive promontory stimulation test is useful for selecting patients for CI deafened by neurobrucellosis.