Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to determine the auditory performance of congenitally deaf children and the effect of cochlear implantation (CI) on speech intelligibility. Methods: Aprospective study was undertaken on 47 children in a pediatric tertiary referral center for CI. All children were deaf prelingually and were younger than 8 years of age. They were followed up until 5...

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...

OBJECTIVE The age at which a child receives a cochlear implant seems to be one of the more important predictors of his or her speech and language outcomes. However, understanding the association between age at implantation and child outcomes is complex because a child's age, length of device use, and age at implantation are highly related. In this study, we investigate whether there is an added...

Abstract Background Research findings on the reading outcomes of cochlear implants are inconsistent. Controversy was observed in performance implanted children, both relation to hearing aid users and normally children. This cross-sectional study aims evaluate phonological awareness skills school-aged, severe-to-profound, prelingually deafened children using identify any associations between the...

Formant frequencies were determined from vocalic utterances of a prelinguistically deafened child implanted with a Nucleus 22-channel device at age 5 years. Speech samples were obtained from recordings of speech made 5 and 2 months prior to implantation and at 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months post implantation. Prior to implantation, first formant values showed a greater range than those of normal ...

Objectives: Profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. As it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. According to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf childchr('39')s language development, this study evaluates the...

Central venous occlusion is a risk when using transvenous pacemaker leads, which may complicate repeated lead implantation. This particularly important in young children with small body sizes, who often need an upgrade from single to dual chamber device later life. Furthermore, survival reported be shorter compared adults. Despite this, there are limited data on access patency during implantati...

s:1454:"Background: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI) outcome is tighly depending of male and female factors. The assessment of several clinical and laboratory parameters may predict results of ICSI. Materials and Methods: We restrospectively analysed patients who had ICSI for male or female factor infertility. The clinical and laboratory factors that influenced the fertilization, pregnanc...