Pre-operative assessments before cochlear implantation (CI) includes the examination of both tone hearing, and the level of the cochlear reserve indicated by speech understanding. The goal of this stu...
We did a retrospective cohort study, which included adult patients who had undergone CI between January 2012 and December 2019 in a tertiary care center. The pre-operative tone hearing, unaided maximu...
103 patients and 128 ears were included in this study. Regardless of tone hearing, patients with better pre-operative WRSmax and WRS65(HA) performed better post-operatively. WRSmax was found to be the...
Cochlear reserve represented by WRSmax may play the most important role as a predictive factor in outcomes after CI. SPG should be considered for indicating CI in patients, when WRS65(HA) does not rea...
A cochlear implant is an electronic prosthesis used in the rehabilitation of profound bilateral hearing loss. It directly stimulates cochlear nerve fibers by bypassing the hair cells. This high-perfor...
Identify barriers and facilitating factors in cochlear implant (CI) utilization by comparing functional measures between CI candidates who undergo or forgo implantation....
Forty-three participants were separated into two groups: (1) 28 participants who underwent CI and (2) 15 participants who elected not to proceed with CI despite meeting eligibility criteria (no-CI). P...
CIQOL-Expectations scores were indistinguishable between groups, but there were substantial differences in baseline CIQOL-35 Profile scores. Compared to the CI group, the no-CI group exhibited higher ...
The results of this study indicate that functional outcome expectations are similar between candidates who elect to receive or forgo CI, yet those who forgo CI have higher baseline CI-specific QOL abi...
4 Laryngoscope, 133:3548-3553, 2023....
Cochlear implants (CIs) provide an opportunity for the hearing impaired to perceive sound through electrical stimulation of the hearing (cochlear) nerve. However, there is a high risk of losing a pati...
This study aimed to 1) assess the hearing-related Quality of Life (QoL) of children with cochlear implants (CIs) in China and 2) investigate the impact of CI in children and of the socio-demographic b...
This study used the Mandarin Children with Cochlear Implants: Parental Perspectives questionnaire (MPP), which assessed the communication capability, auditory perception, self-independence, level of h...
A total of 124 responses were collected, and they indicated satisfaction and improvement across all aspects of the MPP Questionnaire. Statistical analysis revealed that an earlier age of cochlear impl...
CIs can improve hearing-related QoL in children with pre-lingual or congenital hearing loss entering the mainstream education system in China. This study showed that early age of cochlear implantation...
To evaluate the impact of preoperative and perioperative factors on postlinguistic adult cochlear implant (CI) performance and design a multivariate prediction model....
Prospective cohort study....
Tertiary referral center....
Two hundred thirty-nine postlinguistic adult CI recipients....
Speech-perception testing (consonant-nucleus-consonant [CNC], AzBio in noise +10-dB signal-to-noise ratio) at 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively; electrocochleography-total response (ECochG-TR) at th...
ECochG-TR strongly correlated with CNC word score at 6 months ( r = 0.71, p < 0.0001). A multivariable linear regression model including age, duration of hearing loss, angular insertion depth, and ECo...
This study uses the most comprehensive data set to date to validate ECochG-TR as a measure of cochlear health as it relates to suitability for CI stimulation, and it further underlies the importance o...
Verbal fluency tasks assess the ability to quickly and efficiently retrieve words from the mental lexicon by requiring subjects to rapidly generate words within a phonological or semantic category. Th...
Twenty-eight children and adolescents (aged 9-17 years) with cochlear implants and 33 normal-hearing peers completed measures of verbal fluency, nonverbal intelligence, speech perception, and verbal s...
Children and adolescents with cochlear implants generated fewer words than normal-hearing peers throughout the entire 60-s time interval of the phonological and semantic fluency tasks. Cochlear implan...
Cochlear implant users show poorer phonological and semantic verbal fluency than normal-hearing peers, and their verbal fluency is significantly associated with speech perception and verbal working me...
To achieve better speech performance following cochlear implantation (CI), measuring the patient's cochlear duct length (CDL) and determining the appropriate length of the CI array are important....
To investigate the CDL in CI patients after using the OTOPLAN software preoperatively and compare the results of angular insertion depth (AID) estimation by OTOPLAN and postoperative radiography....
The study included 105 Japanese CI patients with normal cochleae. We measured the CDL using OTOPLAN and the position of the tip channel of the electrode for each selected electrode array, and estimate...
The mean CDL was 35.1 ± 1.6 mm. Preoperatively, the mean estimated AID was 580.3 ± 57.8°. Postoperative radiography revealed a mean AID of 583.0 ± 56.7°, demonstrating a strong linear correlation betw...
Our findings revealed that CDL varies widely, which is consistent with previous studies. To achieve better speech perception, surgeons should select the appropriate length of CI electrode array based ...
Cochlear implants (CIs) are a well-established treatment modality for hearing loss due to neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). Our aim is to investigate variables that affect longitudinal performance of CI...
Retrospective review at a single academic institution consisting of patients who have received cochlear implants following hearing loss due to NF2....
The primary outcome examined was CI disuse or explantation. Associated clinical and surgical variables were analyzed using descriptive statistics. These included postoperative pure tone average (PTA) ...
A total of 12 patients and 14 cochlear implants received at our institution from 2001 to 2022 were included. Notably, 35.7% of CIs (5 out of 14 cases) resulted in disuse or explantation. The average i...
Despite the recurrent nature of NF2, patients continue to receive audiological benefit from cochlear implants. We found that larger tumor size may be associated with longitudinal CI failure....
4 Laryngoscope, 134:1847-1853, 2024....
Cochlear implantation is the treatment of choice for patients with profound hearing loss and deafness. At the same time, inserting a cochlear implant (CI) leaves damage to the inner ear. The preservat...
