Research and clinical experience over the last two or three decades has shown that the use of one cochlear implant, or unilateral implantation, provides significant benefit over the use of hearing aids for adults and children who have severe and profound hearing loss. Consequently, unilateral cochlear implantation has become accepted as standard of care for those with such hearing loss. This te...

Introduction: The world community is concerned with the assessment of speech and hearing development children sensorineural deafness after cochlear implantation, since most important result rehabilitation success social integration such children. In countries world, Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (MAIS) Use Language (MUSS) are used to assess auditory language loss implantation (CI). Unfo...

1 TITLE: Cochlear Implantation SOURCE: Grand Rounds Presentation, Department of Otolaryngology The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health) DATE: October 29, 2012 RESIDENT PHYSICIAN: Joseph L. Russell , MD FACULTY PHYSICIAN ADVISOR: Dayton Young, MD FACULTY PHYSICIAN ADVISOR: Tomoko Makishima, MD, PhD DISCUSSANT: Dayton Young , MD SERIES EDITOR: Francis B. Quinn, Jr., MD ARCHIVIST: Meli...

Introduction In the pertinent literature there is no consensus for optimal antibiotic prophylaxis cochlear implantation in adults. This study evaluates our experience with a single perioperative combination film dressing.

This study reviews the cochlear histology from four hearing preservation cochlear implantation experiments conducted on 73 guinea pigs from our institution, and relates histopathological findings to residual hearing. All guinea pigs had normal hearing prior to surgery and underwent cochlear implantation via a cochleostomy with a silastic-platinum dummy electrode. Pure tone auditory brainstem re...

This is a case of successful cochlear implantation in a 50-year-old man who experienced sudden hearing loss and developed ipsilateral severe tinnitus at three years following conservative stage 1 vestibular schwannoma retrosigmoid surgery. After cochlear implantation, tinnitus improved from THI grade 4 to 2. Localisation skills improved. Hearing in noise (S/N + 7 dB) with target signal from the...

Of 20 children who underwent cochlear implantation for profound sensorineural hearing loss secondary to bacterial meningitis, 14 had round-window and cochlear ossification at surgery. Preoperative polytomography demonstrated ossification in 11 of these. The incidence of ossification was highest after meningitis secondary to pneumococcal pneumonia. In only one of four children with severe ossifi...

Introduction: Speech intelligibility, the ability to be understood verbally by listeners, is the gold standard for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implantation. Thus, the goal of this study was to compare the speech intelligibility between normal-hearing and cochlear-implanted children using the Persian intelligibility test.   Materials and Methods: Twenty-six cochlear-implanted childre...

OBJECTIVE To quantify progress after cochlear implantation for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of speech and language and speech perception test scores of children with autism who have received a cochlear implant at our center. SETTING University of Michigan Medical Center, Cochlear Implant Program. PATIENTS Six children, ages 3 to 16 years,...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to compare the long-term auditory performance and language skill depending on the age of cochlear implantation in the Korean population. We especially tried to separate the effect of maturation/development from that of the age at implantation. METHODS Eighty-six pre-lingual children with profound hearing loss who underwent a cochlear implantation bef...