Sudden Deafness Associated with Adenovirus Infection

Abstract

SUDDEN unilateral deafness may be the presenting symptom of a wide variety of medical and surgical diseases, such as vascular occlusion, hypercoagulation, acoustic neuroma, ototoxic drugs, meningitis, syphilis, multiple sclerosis, collagen diseases, measles and mumps. The hearing loss may be partial or total and is frequently permanent when untreated. However, emergency treatment soon after the onset of the sudden deafness will restore the hearing to normal in over 60 per cent of the patients.1 , 2 This report documents the first patient with sudden deafness who was proved to have a viral infection. Adenovirus Type 3 was isolated from the nasopharynx and . . .