REPETITIVE HEARING-LOSS FOLLOWING DURAL PUNCTURE TREATED WITH AUTOLOGOUS EPIDURAL BLOOD PATCH

A case of repetitive hearing loss following an otherwise uncomplicated diagnostic dural puncture is presented. The patient developed severe postdural puncture headache (PDPH) and three episodes of pronounced ve stibulocochlear disturbances within five weeks after only one dural pu ncture. On all three occasions the headache and the associated symptom s were treated with an autologous epidural blood patch (LEBP) resultin g in the immediate disappearance of all the subjective complaints of p ostdural puncture headache and the normalization of an audiological te st within minutes.