Doctors at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals perform microvascular neurosurgery to treat Dutch man with rare tinnitus
New Delhi: Doctors at a Delhi hospital have treated a man from The Netherlands, suffering from a rare form of tinnitus, which affected his daily life and activities.
Tinnitus is the perception of an abnormal sound in the ear, and may be a constant or an intermittent mush or an annoying ringing or hissing sound.
But the middle-aged Dutch man suffered from pulsatile tinnitus where he had been enduring a constant, non-stop, loud whoosh present throughout the day and night for over two years. It would coincide with each of his heartbeats.
He became very irritable, lost appetite and weight. He could not sleep despite taking sleeping pills regularly.
An MRI scan of the brain revealed gross compression of the hearing nerve by arteries, which were more than twice the normal size.
While there is no cure to the disease, doctors at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi suggested microvascular neurosurgery.
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