Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients with Long-COVID-19: Objective and Behavioral Audiometric Findings.

Karolina Dorobisz Katarzyna Pazdro-ZastawnyPaula MisiakAnna Kruk-KrzemieńTomasz Zatoński

Published in: Infection and drug resistance (2023)

COVID-19 can damage the inner ear as well as the auditory pathway. Hearing loss may be the only symptom of COVID-19 or be a late complication of the disease due to postinfectious inflammation of the nerve tissue as a symptom of long COVID-19. Prolonged conduction of the auditory pathway shows the affinity of the virus to the nervous system as a symptom of long COVID. It is advisable to perform hearing diagnostics in patients after COVID-19 and provide them with specialist care.

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