Researchers’ Work from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital Focuses on COVID-19 (Sudden sensorineural hearing loss after COVID-19 vaccination): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2021 DEC 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Fresh data on coronavirus are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “ABSTRACT: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread rapidly and was declared a pandemic.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital: “In this situation, vaccination for COVID-19 is important and has been prompted in many countries. Rare serious adverse events including Guillain-Barre syndrome, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, and myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccinations have been reported. Otolaryngologic adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination were reported, including several cases of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). We report three patients with SSNHL within three days after COVID-19 vaccination and consider an association between them.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Although there is no evidence of an association between vaccination and SSNHL, the adverse event of SSNHL after COVID-19 vaccination should be kept in mind because viral infection could be the etiology of SSNHL, which is an otologic emergency that requires prompt treatment with steroids.”

For more information on this research see: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss after COVID-19 vaccination. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021,113():341-343. (International Journal of Infectious Diseases - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-infectious-diseases/). The publisher for International Journal of Infectious Diseases is Elsevier.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.10.025.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Junhui Jeong, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Hyun Seung Choi.

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