IMPLANTABLE PROSTHESES FOR THE INNER EAR

Editorial: Overview and Challenges of Implantable Auditory Prostheses

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease- A Clinical Viewpoint

Recent developments in medicine have given us a better insight into a group of disorders known as autoimmune diseases. In particular, advances have occurred in our understanding of the Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED). In this article, the authors review the different postulated theories in the pathogenesis of this disease. The clinical presentation, the available para-clinical diagnostic to...

Inside the inner ear

There are dozens of different myosin isozymes, though it's not clear why cells require such a diversity. These images of fluorescently-labelled hair cells from the inner ears of frog, guinea pig and mouse show the localization of actin (red at top left and bottom right) and of four different forms of myosin (green, except at bottom left, where myosin VI is labelled in red). Hair cells are the r...

Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses

A Novel Way of Stimulation of the Inner Ear via Labyrinthotomy with Fully Implantable Active Middle Ear Implant, Carina

The left ear of a 55-year-old man with bilateral mixed hearing loss was implanted with Carina. Due to absence of middle ear ossicles and oval and round windows, the transducer was coupled with the endosteum of the cochlea. A significant improvement was observed in the pure tone average after Carina application. Carina and a conventional hearing aid yielded similar amplification in the low frequ...