[Sarcoidosis presenting with recurrent aseptic meningitis and acute hearing loss]

Harefuah. 2012 May;151(5):270-1, 319.
[Article in Hebrew]

Abstract

Neurologic complications occur in 5% of patients with sarcoidosis. Neurosarcoidosis ranges from mild neurologic deficits to a destructive, life-threatening disease, and at times is the only presenting symptom of sarcoidosis, thus posing a diagnostic challenge for the doctor neurologic symptoms include cranial nerve palsies, with the vestibulocochlear nerve rarely being involved. We present a patient with neurosarcoidosis manifesting as recurrent episodes of aseptic meningitis, vertigo, and acute hearing loss.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / complications
  • Central Nervous System Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Female
  • Hearing Loss / diagnosis
  • Hearing Loss / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Meningitis, Aseptic / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Aseptic / etiology*
  • Recurrence
  • Sarcoidosis / complications
  • Sarcoidosis / diagnosis*
  • Vertigo / diagnosis
  • Vertigo / etiology

Supplementary concepts

  • Neurosarcoidosis