PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ji Hwa Kim
AU  - Kyung Jin Roh
AU  - Sang Hyun Suh
AU  - Kyung-Yul Lee
TI  - Republished: Improvement of sudden bilateral hearing loss after vertebral artery stenting
AID  - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011595.rep
DP  - 2016 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - e12--e12
VI  - 8
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/8/3/e12.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/8/3/e12.full
SO  - J NeuroIntervent Surg2016 Mar 01; 8
AB  - Bilateral deafness is a rare but possible symptom of vertebrobasilar ischemia. We report a case of sudden bilateral sensorineural hearing loss caused by bilateral vertebral artery (VA) occlusion which dramatically improved after stenting. A 54-year-old man was admitted with sudden onset of bilateral deafness, vertigo, and drowsy mental status. Brain diffusion-weighted MRI showed acute infarction involving both the posterior inferior cerebellar artery and left posterior cerebral artery territory. Cerebral angiography showed bilateral distal VA occlusion, and emergency intracranial stenting was performed in the left VA. After reperfusion therapy his symptoms gradually improved, including hearing impairment. Endovascular stenting may be helpful in a patient with sudden deafness caused by bilateral VA occlusion.