4th Department of Internal Medicine and Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, General Faculty Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Cochlear implant (CI) treatment is now established as a successful standard of care for auditory rehabilitation of profoundly deaf or severe hearing loss patients. CI candidates with tinnitus also ben...
Determine associations expected and actual cochlear implant (CI) outcomes, decisional regret, and satisfaction in experienced adult CI users....
Cross-sectional cohort study....
Tertiary medical center....
Thirty-nine adult CI users meeting traditional bilateral hearing loss indications with ≥12 months CI experience....
Patients completed the validated Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Living and Decisional Regret instruments. Pre- and post-CI outcomes (CI Quality of Life [CIQOL]-Expectations; CIQOL-35 Profile...
Using established cutoff scores, 29% of patients reported a substantial degree of post-CI decisional regret. For each CIQOL domain, patients without decisional regret obtained post-CI outcome scores c...
Patients with better alignment of their pre-CI expectations and post-CI outcomes and greater pre-/post-CIQOL improvement had lower decisional regret and higher satisfaction. This emphasizes the import...
To study the effect of cochlear implant age and duration of the intervention (auditory rehabilitation post-cochlear implantation) on ESRT in children with cochlear implants....
A total of 90 pre-lingual cochlear implant users were included. For the measurement of ESRTs the recipient's processor was connected to the programming pod and electrode numbers 22, 11 and 3 (apical, ...
There were significant differences in the measured T, C and ESRT levels with respect to the duration of the intervention (auditory rehabilitation post-cochlear implantation) and cochlear implant age o...
The differences in the T, C and ESRT levels after continued device usage and after attending auditory rehabilitation sessions post-cochlear implantation are subjected to optimal benefit from implantat...
The differences in T, C and ESRT levels can be utilised clinically to study the importance of duration of cochlear implant device usage and the importance of auditory rehabilitation post-cochlear impl...
To develop an evidence-based protocol for audiology-based, cochlear implant (CI) programming in the first year after activation....
Retrospective case review....
CI program at a tertiary medical center....
One-hundred seventy-one patients (178 ears; mean age at implantation, 62.3 yr; 44.4% female) implanted between 2016 and 2021 with postlingual onset of deafness and no history of CI revision surgery. P...
Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic word recognition scores in the CI-alone and bilateral best-aided conditions at five time points: preoperative evaluation, and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after acti...
For both the CI-alone and bilateral best-aided conditions, consonant-nucleus-consonant word recognition significantly improved from preoperative evaluation to all postactivation time points. For the C...
Based on the current data set and associated analyses, CI centers programming adult patients could eliminate either the 3- or 6-month visit from their clinical follow-up schedule if patient mapping of...
Explore the effects of hearing loss on social life and identify residual social life deficits that remain after cochlear implantation....
Retrospective review of prospectively obtained data....
Tertiary care adult neurotology center....
Adults between the ages of 35 and 83 years were included with either normal hearing (NH) or a cochlear implant (CI)....
CI and non-CI-specific quality-of-life (QOL) surveys focused on social and overall QOL....
(1) The difference in QOL survey responses between NH and CI participants. (2) The relationship between CI-specific global and social QOL responses and non-CI-specific social QOL responses in CI users...
A total of 51 participants were included: 31 CI users and 20 NH participants. Of the social QOL questionnaires, CI users reported significantly poorer scores on Self-Efficacy in Social Interactions th...
CI users self-report similar social life outcomes as their NH peers with the exception of poorer self-efficacy in social situations. Moreover, self-efficacy in social interactions and social isolation...
To explore socioeconomic disparities in cochlear implant evaluation (CIE) referrals and cochlear implantation....
Retrospective chart review....
Tertiary referral academic center....
Adult patients (n = 271) with an audiogram performed between 2015 and 2019 with a pure-tone average of at least 60 dB and word recognition score of 60% or less in the better-hearing ear or no word rec...
There were 122 insured patients referred to CIE where 84 were considered cochlear implant (CI) candidates and 73 were implanted. In multivariate regression analysis, non-English-speaking patients were...
Primary language spoken was associated with a disparity in rates of CIE referral. Insurance type did influence rate of cochlear implantation once patients completed CIE and were considered CI candidat...
Evaluate the rate of preserved vestibular function in pediatric cochlear implant surgery....
Retrospective case review....
Pre- and post-operative vestibular tests were compared in children who underwent cochlear implantation at a tertiary level pediatric hospital over a 4-year period....
Data from 59 implanted ears in 44 children was included. Median age was 2.8 years at initial testing (range 7 months - 21 years) with 1:1 male/female ratio. Implant surgeries were 26 unilateral, 13 bi...
Preservation rates of vestibular function following cochlear implant surgery were higher in this cohort than what has been reported in many earlier studies. Contemporary, less traumatic electrodes and...
4, Case Series Laryngoscope, 134:1913-1918, 2024....
The present study describes the treatment of patients at a tertiary institution who experienced device failure after Cochlear Implantation (CI), as well as identifying prodromic symptoms that could as...
Retrospective database review (January 2000-May 2017)....
Single tertiary hospital....
Factors recorded included the etiology of hearing loss; age at first and revision CI surgeries; surgical information, including operation time and approach; electrical outcomes after implantation; dev...
From January 2000 to May 2017, 1431 CIs were performed, with 27 (1.9%) undergoing revision surgeries due to device failure. The most common etiology of hearing loss was idiopathic (12/27), followed by...
The most suggestive symptom preceding device failure was intermittent loss of signal. Patients who present with this symptom should undergo electrical examination for suspected device failure. Audiolo...
This study aimed to describe the factors affecting early and late cochlear implantation....
A total of 159 patients from the Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM) Cochlear Implant Programme were recruited in this retrospective cross-sectional study. All paediatric Cochlear Implant (CI) reci...
A total of 83 (52%) patients were female. Chinese race constituted most of the patients, which was 90/159 (57%). The majority were from middle-income families (M40); 89 (56%). The most common aetiolog...
UNHS was a significant factor contributing to early and late implantation. The median age of diagnosis of hearing loss was 18 months (interquartile range; 15); the age of CI was 34 months (interquarti...
A retrospective cross-sectional analysis was conducted of the US Food and Drug Administration's MAUDE (Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience) database, to evaluate the complication profile ...
A review of the MAUDE database was conducted from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2020. Complications, including infection, extrusion, facial nerve stimulation, meningitis and cerebrospinal fluid leak, ...
A total of 31 857 adverse events were analysed. Implants of manufacturer C were associated with a statistically higher rate of infection (0.97 per cent), cerebrospinal fluid leak (0.07 per cent), extr...
Consideration of patient risk factors along with cochlear implant manufacturers can heighten awareness of cochlear implant complications pre-operatively, intra-operatively and post-operatively....