AI Article Synopsis
- Lightning strikes can lead to serious injuries, affecting multiple organs and causing various auditory issues, including hearing loss and tympanic membrane rupture.
- The specific mechanisms behind hearing damage from lightning strikes are not completely understood.
- A case study highlights a 45-year-old woman who suffered severe hearing loss from a lightning strike but successfully regained hearing through cochlear implantation.
Article Abstract
Lightning strike can produce an array of clinical symptoms and injuries. It may damage multiple organs and cause auditory injuries ranging from transient hearing loss and vertigo to complete disruption of the auditory system. Tympanic-membrane rupture is relatively common in patients with lightning injury. The exact pathogenetic mechanisms of auditory lesions in lightning survivors have not been fully elucidated. We report the case of a 45-year-old woman with bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss caused by a lightning strike, who was successfully rehabilitated after a cochlear implantation.
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