To evaluate the safety and outcomes of cochlear implantation (CI) in patients with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts to inform clinical practice....
Historical cohort study....
Tertiary referral centers....
A multi-institutional historical cohort of patients with VP shunts and CI was identified and analyzed....
A total of 46 patients (median age 8 years [interquratile range, IQR: 2-46]) with VP shunts and CI were identified. Of these, 41 (89%) patients had a VP shunt prior to CI. Based on institutional prefe...
CI can be performed at low risk, either contralateral or ipsilateral, to a VP shunt, and does not mandate shunt revision in most cases. Additional considerations regarding CI receiver-stimulator place...
To date, auditory rehabilitation mainly focuses on the person with hearing impairment (PHI). This study aimed to analyse the burden of hearing loss on significant others (SOs), and to explore the impa...
Third-party disability (SOS-HEAR) and quality of life (Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire) were evaluated in 41 PHI scheduled for CI surgery and their close partners pre- and 6-month post-implant...
Hearing loss imposes a burden on SOs, particularly in relation to changes in communication and socialisation. Third-party disability was higher in SOs of PHI with lower educational background (...
Audiological rehabilitation should expand to include SOs in the rehabilitation process, as the burden experienced by SOs might persist even after CI....
Hearing loss is an important health problem in children and cochlear implantation is used in its treatment. In addition, in children with hearing loss, accompanying renal, neurological, structural and...
The data were obtained from the medical records of our hospital, which is a tertiary referral cochlear implant center. All children who had cochlear implantation surgery due to sensorineural hearing l...
Sixty children (15 girls and 45 boys) with a mean age of 6.5 years were analyzed. Children with a history of heart disease were excluded. In cardiac examinations, five (8.3%) had systolic murmur, four...
This study demonstrates the need for electrocardiography and cardiac examinations in children undergoing cochlear implantation for hearing loss. These cases should be evaluated especially in terms of ...
Cochlear implants (CIs) are a successful alternative in cases with severe-to-profound HL. In these individuals, visual cross-modal re-organization can occur because of hearing loss where the visual co...
This work is designed to study visual evoked potentials (VEPs) in children fitted with CIs in comparison to normal hearing children....
This work included 2 groups of children: Group I included 20 normal hearing children and study group included 25 children fitted with unilateral CIs. All cases were subjected to Thorough otological hi...
Both groups showed no significant difference as regard age or sex. And both had normal ophthalmic examinations. Children of the study groups showed satisfactory aided response. As regard pVEPs, the st...
This study showed that deafness could induced cortical organization in the visual cortex and not limited to the auditory cortex only....
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....
Shorter and thinner electrodes were developed for preserving residual hearing after cochlear implantation by minimising trauma. As trauma is regarded as one of the causes of fibrous tissue formation a...
Impedance values were retrospectively collected from our clinical database and evaluated for all active contacts and basal, middle and apical contacts separately for up to 10 years....
All 137 adult patients received a Hybrid-L electrode and had to be implanted for at least 1 year....
On average impedances increased to 13 kOhm before first fitting and dropped to 5-7 kOhm under electrical stimulation with lower values measured on apical contacts. Mean values remained stable over yea...
Despite smaller contacts, impedance values after start of electrical stimulation were comparable to published values of Contour electrodes. This might suggest less tissue growth with the Hybrid-L elec...
The aim of this study was to understand the mastoid volume development in children who undergo cochlear implantation surgery. Cochlear implant (CI) database of our clinic (Kuopio University Hospital) ...
Hearing rehabilitation of patients with severe hearing loss or deafness using cochlear implants (CI) is a very successful but also complex and lifelong process that requires high quality standards for...
To determine the prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes of pediatric patients with recurrent swelling over their cochlear implant receiver package....
Retrospective case review....
Tertiary referral center....
A total of 332 bilateral cochlear implant patients under the age of 18 years were reviewed. Twelve patients with more than one episode of swelling around their cochlear implant receiver package were i...
Three patients underwent ultrasound, and three patients underwent bedside aspiration. Most patients were treated with 7 days of oral broad-spectrum antibiotics....
Incidence, frequency, and course of recurrent swelling around cochlear implant receiver packages....
The first swelling appeared between 0.86 and 9.95 years after surgery (mean, 3.38), and the occurrence of the last episode ranged from 0.06 to 3.42 years from the current date (mean, 1.04). The total ...
Recurrent otherwise asymptomatic swelling over cochlear implant receiver packages in children is more common than initially thought. Possible causes include hematoma and seroma secondary to upper resp...
