The aims were to determine the benefit of bilateral cochlear implantation in a 20 years old patient implanted in Croatia on hearing and speech development. The male patient, after 10 years of deafness, got cochlear implants Med-EL Combi 40+ on both sides in one-stage surgery. The etiology of his deafness was posttraumatic meningitis. Auditory capacity and speech recognition tests were performed...

OBJECTIVE To determine the degree of tinnitus suppression provided by currently available multichannel cochlear implants and to determine factors that can influence this process. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING Tertiary-care referral center. PATIENTS Thirty-eight adult patients (18 years of age or older) with severe-to-profound hearing loss and tinnitus who met criteria for cochl...

OBJECTIVE We report an extremely rare case of pneumocephalus after cochlear implantation. METHOD Case report and a review of the world literature on pneumocephalus after cochlear implantation. RESULTS We present a case of uneventful cochlear implantation in a patient with nasal polyposis. Post-operative nose blowing resulted in subcutaneous emphysema pneumocephale presenting five weeks post...

cochlear implantation has become an increasingly common procedure in the rehabilitation of selected cases of profound deafness.' patients should have profound total bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. sound is transformed into small electric currents which stimulate the auditory nerves in the cochlea and generate the hearing sensation. the nucleus cochlear implant is the result of more t...

objectives: phonemic awareness skills have a significant impact on children speech and language. the purpose of this study was investigating the phonemic awareness skills of children with cochlear implant and normal hearing peers in primary school. methods: phonemic awareness subscales of phonological awareness test were administered to 30 children with cochlear implantation at the first to six...

INTRODUCTION Cochlear implants known to provide support in individuals with bilateral hearing loss may also be of great benefit for individuals with unilateral hearing loss. This case report demonstrates the positive effects of cochlear implantation on speech understanding in noise conditions in patients with unilateral hearing loss and normal hearing on the contralateral side. To the best of o...

objective: the aim of our study is to determine the impact of cochlear implantation on anxiety anddepression in mothers of children with cochlear implant. materials and methods: in a cohort design, 35 mothers of deaf children with cochlear implantion admitted to the clinic of baqiyatallah hospital during january 2008 – january 2010 were selected through systematic sampling. information of demog...

The deteriorating ability to communicate has a negative impact on quality of life in the aging population. Cochlear implantation is increasingly used to treat hearing impairment and to restore the ability to communicate. Here, in a sample of 79 adults (70 years and older), we explored the effect of cochlear implantation on the health-related quality of life via the Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Que...

Background: Cochlear implantation in recent years had been a final treatment for those with severe sonsorineural hearing loss. Cochlear implantation is a safe procedure, due to development of science and technology the complication of cochlear implantation is decreasing. Unusual and uncommon complications are unpredictable and managed with extra conscious because these complications may lead to...