Man Cured Of Hearing His Own Eyeballs Roll
Posted by Ryan on August 1st, 2011
Stephen Mabbutt was diagnosed with superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), which is a rare condition where sounds inside the body become very loud. Aside from hearing his own eyeballs roll in his head, he could hear his own heart beating and chewing food was a deafening experience. Surgeons were able to repair the condition and the patient is doing fine.
“Eventually I could hear my heart beating and my eyes moving in their sockets. It was really distracting.”
Mr Mabbutt was referred to Martin Burton, a surgeon from the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital who helped establish the Cochrane Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders Group. A CT scan found perforations inside the semicircular canals inside Mr Mabbutt’s ear.
He was diagnosed with superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS), a rare condition discovered by American surgeon Lloyd B Minor in 1995, which is thought to only effect one in 500,000 a year in Britain.
The operation to cure the problem involved a 5cm (2in) incision behind the ear, making a channel through the bone to find the “balance organ” and using the patient’s own bone to create a seal around the defect, the BBC said.
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