Tepezza Hearing Loss Lawsuit
Teprotumumab, sold using the brand name Tepezza. It is a medication applied to treat adults with thyroid eye disease, where patients find muscles and fatty tissues behind the eye become inflamed, creating the eye to bulge outwards.
The FDA approved this medication based on its autoimmune inflammatory disease. TEPEZZA was developed by Horizon Therapeutics, an international biotechnology company located in Dublin, Ireland.
American Academy of Otolaryngology
Although the company claimed that Tepezza was the best at its cure for thyroid eye disease, as per the American Academy of Otolaryngology, many patients have suffered permanent hearing loss after applying Tepezza. In 2022, David Weil, a patient who became a victim of Tepezza and suffered permanent hearing loss, filed a lawsuit against the company.
Although the invented drug for treating TED clearly shows that it can cause permanent hearing loss, the company Horizon Therapeutics hid the facts. It failed to warn patients and doctors regarding the side effects of the drug.
Ignoring By Horizon Therapeutics
Horizon Therapeutics, which has developed the drug, claimed that there was a possibility that 10 per cent of patients get affected by hearing damage as a side effect. But, sources say that more than 65% of people who used the medicine got affected.
Hearing Side Effects Of TEPEZZA
According to the famous International Journal on Orbital Disorders, Oculoplastic, and Lacrimal Surgery in 2021, applying Tepezza can cause several hearing side effects.
It can be Permanent hearing loss
Partial hearing loss
Patulous Eustachian Tube (PET)
Tinnitus
Autophony (hearing your voice louder than normal)
TEPEZZA Hearing Loss Research
When the drug was approved by the FDA and released into the market, studies showed hearing loss and the use of this drug on thyroid eye disease.
Endocrine Society’s journals
Andrea Kossler, MD, has reported on hearing loss and Teprotumumab that 26 patients were treated with four infusions of Tepezza. Reports showed that nearly 65 per cent of people have hearing loss symptoms, contrary to the company, which has mentioned only 10 per cent of hearing loss possibility.
Otology & Neurotology
A seventy-seven-year-old woman reported that after being treated with Tepezza, she suffered from Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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