Vertigo and hearing loss during the COVID-19 pandemic - is there an association?

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi^{1

2}, Ali Safavi Naeini^{1

2}, Nasim Raad^{1

2}, Narges Mikaniki³, Jahangir Ghorbani^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
² Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Otolaryngology, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran.

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi et al. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;40(6):463-465.

doi: 10.14639/0392-100X-N0820. Epub 2020 Jun 10.

Mahboobeh Karimi-Galougahi^{1

2}, Ali Safavi Naeini^{1

2}, Nasim Raad^{1

2}, Narges Mikaniki³, Jahangir Ghorbani^{1

2}

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Tehran, Iran.
² Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Otolaryngology, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran.

Abstract

La vertigine e l’ipoacusia durante la pandemia COVID-19 – esiste un nesso?

Keywords: COVID-19; corona virus; hearing loss; sensorineural hearing loss; vertigo.

Conflict of interest

The Authors declare no conflict of interest.

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