The man, who had asthma but had no other pre-existing conditions, contracted the new virus and was first able to control his symptoms at home. But on the 10th he had difficulty breathing and was admitted to a hospital’s intensive care unit.
“He was intubated for 30 days and his admission was more confusing due to bilateral pulmonary embolism, respirator-associated pneumonia, pulmonary hypertension and anemia,” the authors wrote.
HEARING LOSS MAY CAUSE DENIAL
A week after receiving the remedies by adding the experimental drug redesivir, as well as intravenous steroids and blood plasma, the boy improved. He was then transferred out of the intensive care unit, but temporarily some other fitness problem evolved: a “sudden hearing loss” that affected his left ear, the authors wrote.
“I had no hearing loss or ear disease,” they noted.
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After a series of hearing tests, the doctors who treated him decided that inflammation was not the cause of his hearing loss, on the contrary, they recommended in the report, the new virus would possibly have broken his nerves in his ear, resulting in persistent hearing loss.
“Despite abundant literature on COVID-19 and symptoms related to the virus, there is a lack of discussion about dating between COVID-19 and hearing. Hearing loss and tinnitus are symptoms that have been observed in patients with COVID-19 and influenza virus, have not yet been identified,” they wrote.
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“This is the first reported case of sensorineural hearing loss after cOVID-19 infection in the UK. Given the widespread presence of the virus in the population and the significant morbidity of hearing loss, further investigation is needed,” they concluded.
“This is true given the desire to temporarily identify and treat hearing loss and the difficulty in accessing medical services. We recommend that patients be asked about hearing loss in ITU settings, if any, and refer to any patient reporting acute hearing loss. otolaryngology as an emergency. “