Successful Surgical Treatment of Arnold-Chiari Malformation Combined with a Pontocerebellar Cyst and Unilateral Hearing Loss Volume 4 - Issue 1

Shamil Safin^1,2, Ilmira Gilemkhanova^1,3, Khristina Derevyanko^1,4 and S Muruga Subramaniam^1,5,6*

• ¹Department of Neurosurgery and medical rehabilitation with an ICPE (Institute of Continuing Professional Education) course, Bashkir State Medical University, Russia
• ²Department of Neurosurgery, GG Kuvatov Republican Clinical Hospital, Russia
• ³Department of Neurosurgery, Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital, Russia
• ⁴Department of Neurology, Clinic of Bashkir State Medical University, Russia
• ⁵Departments of Surgery, Division of Neurotrauma, Malaysia
• ⁶Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Malaysia

Received: May 15, 2019;   Published: June 04, 2020

Corresponding author: S Muruga Subramaniam, Department of Neurosurgery and medical rehabilitation with an ICPE (Institute of Continuing Professional Education) course, Bashkir State Medical University, UFA, Russia

DOI: 10.32474/OJNBD.2020.04.000178

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Abstract

Background: Cochlear dysfunction, is considered one of the difficult topical and important areas in modern otorhinolaryngological practice. Diagnosis and treatment of cochlear dysfunction is even more complicated in combined pathologies. There have been reported only few cases of a combined with Arnold-Chiari malformation with hearing impairment.

Case description: 34 years old male, was admitted in Republican Clinical Hospital G.G. Kuvatov under neurosurgical care. Patients main complaints was hearing loss associated with “tinnitus” on the left sided, morning headaches, dizziness, and unstable gait. The patient noted a gradual loss of hearing on his left ear over the years. He was diagnosed to have Arnold chiari malformation type 1 with combined hearing loss.

Conclusion: Good planned surgical strategies and operative techniques the hearing loss was restored, and his neurological symptoms was relieved.

Keywords: Arnold-Chiari malformation; Pontocerebellar cyst; Hearing impairment

Abbreviations and Acronyms: ACM: Arnold Chiari Malformation; MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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