Sensorineural Hearing Loss after Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Copyright © 2013 Abolfazl Mollasadeghi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices produce noise, which may affect patient’s or operators ’ hearing. Some cases of hearing impairment after MRI procedure have been reported with different patterns (temporary or permanent, unilateral or bilateral, with or without other symptoms like tinnitus). In this report, a case of bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in an otherwise healthy patient underwent brainMRIwas described.The patient’s hearing loss was accompaniedwith tinnitus andwas not improved after 3months of followup. 1