Sympathetic ophthalmia associated with high frequency deafness

On the 25th day after the original injury, she experienced pain and blurring of vision in her right eye, with the simultaneous onset of bilateral deafness (with an initial high frequency hearing loss of 60 dB). COMMENT Sympathetic ophthalmia with features of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH), was initially reported in the 19th century. 1 More recently, Nirankari et al have reported one case of sympathetic ophthalmia with profound high frequency deafness which did not recover. 2 Rao and Marak 3 have performed a clinicopathological survey of 100 pathological specimens of eyes enucleated because of sympathetic ophthalmia.