Boenninghaus Syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
H83.3	Noise damage to the inner ear - noise- related hearing loss
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The Boenninghaus syndrome is a special form of unilateral hearing loss caused by noise .

The name refers to the author of the first description from 1959 by the Heidelberg ENT doctor Hans-Georg Boenninghaus and is only used in German-speaking countries.

root cause

The disease is probably due to a combination of acute noise trauma and circulatory disorders of the inner ear.

Clinical manifestations

Clinical criteria are:

• mostly one-sided, irreversible, acute hearing loss occurring after exposure to noise
• Tinnitus
• Incorrect posture of the cervical spine during exposure to noise

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernfried Leiber (founder): The clinical syndromes. Syndromes, sequences and symptom complexes . Ed .: G. Burg, J. Kunze, D. Pongratz, PG Scheurlen, A. Schinzel, J. Spranger. 7., completely reworked. Edition. tape 2 : symptoms . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-541-01727-9 .
2. ↑ HG Boenninghaus: Unusual form of hearing impairment after exposure to noise and improper stress on the cervical spine. In: Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology, Otology and their Frontier Areas. Vol. 38, September 1959, pp. 585-592, PMID 13802030 .

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