Autoimmune hearing loss

Loss of hearing can be due to ototoxic drugs, brain cancers, disease of the nerves, autoimmune conditions, Lyme disease, and other infectious diseases, or the cause can be unknown (idiopathic). If the hearing loss is due to an autoimmune condition, such as idiopathic progressive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, several methods of treatment can be offered from medications to suppress the body’s immune system, i.e steroids, and cochlear implants to return hearing.

Source: summary of medical news story as reported by About

Related Disease Topics:

• Brain cancer
• Disease of the nerves
• Autoimmune conditions
• Infectious diseases
• Idiopathic progressive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss

Related Symptom Topics:

• Hearing loss
• Loss of hearing

Article Source Details

About: Autoimmune hearing loss

Date: 2005

Source: About

Author: Mary Kugler

URL: http://rarediseases.about.com/cs/innereardisease/a/011202.htm

Related Medical Topics

This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Cause of hearing loss
• Cause of loss of hearing
• Cause of deafness
• Cause of sensorineural hearing loss
• Cause of ear disease
• Risk and idiopathic ear disease
• Risk and autoimmune disease
• Risk and autoimmune condition
• Risk and deafness
• Risk and sensorineural hearing loss
• Risk and brain cancer
• Risk and neurological disease
• Risk and disease of the nerves
• Risk and Lyme disease
• Risk and infectious disease
• Medication
• Medication and ototoxic drugs
• Medication and hearing loss
• Medication and deafness

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