Acute otitis media and Covid-19 symptoms: a case report

  • Fatemeh Moghadasi Boroujeni Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  • Mehdi Ghadiri Otolaryngology Group, Raad Clinic, Isfahan, Iran
  • Farzaneh Saberi Department of Occupational Therapy, School ofRehabilitation Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
  • Hamed Hashemi-Dezaki Regional Innovational Center for Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/avr.v30i4.7452

Abstract

Background: In December 2019, the first Coro­navirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) case was obse­rved in Wuhan, China, and afterward, the world has been exposed to an ongoing pandemic. The Covid-19 has different symptoms, such as fever, coughing, shortness of breath, muscular pain, headache, diarrhea, nose running, and a sore thr­oat. However, the symptoms of Covid-19 are not limited to these ones.

The Case: The present study reports a 39-year-old female patient complaining of earache and hearing loss with no other Covid-19 symp­toms. The medical tests and diagnoses finally inferred that she was suffering from the
Covid-19.

Conclusion: In addition to the common symp­toms of Covid 19, acute otitis media can be con­sidered as another symptom of this disease.

Keywords: Acute otitis media; Covid-19; conductive hearing loss

Published
2021-10-13
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Volume (30) issue (4)
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