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...
To evaluate the role of intraoperative radiographs to confirm electrode position following pediatric cochlear implantation (CI)....
Retrospective chart review....
Single tertiary care pediatric center....
A retrospective chart review was conducted, including all pediatric patients undergoing CI at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh over a 13-year period....
We identified 326 patients undergoing 492 procedures. Across the cohort, there were 7 cases that required intraoperative electrode reinsertion due to malposition or presumed malposition. For 6 of the ...
The use of Cochlear's Slim Modiolar electrode was associated with a significantly increased risk of abnormal intraoperative X-ray compared to the CA electrode. Given the risk of fold-over with routine...
Music is a very crucial art form that can evoke emotions, and the harmonious presence of the human voice in music is an impactful part of this process. As a result, vocals have had some significant ef...
A total of 16 CI users (7 cisgender men, 9 cisgender women) and 16 sex-matched NH controls with an average age of 30.2 (±10.9; range, 19-53) years and 23.5 (±6.1; range, 20-37) years, respectively, we...
A significant difference in the MPT scores was found between NH and CI recipients, whereas a significant correlation was noted between the music-related quality-of-life questionnaire-frequency subscal...
This study revealed that musical mistuning perception is a limitation for CI recipients, similar to previously evaluated aspects of music perception. Hence, it is important to consider this aspect in ...
In daily life, failure to perceive emotional expressions can result in maladjusted behaviour. For cochlear implant users, perceiving emotional cues in sounds remains challenging, and the factors expla...
To fill this gap, we evaluated different auditory perception aspects in implant users (pitch discrimination, music processing and speech intelligibility) and correlated them to their performance in an...
Eighty-four adults (18-76 years old) participated in our investigation; 42 cochlear implant users and 42 controls. Cochlear implant users performed worse than their controls on all tasks, and emotion ...
As previously observed, emotion perception abilities declined with age (here by about 2-3% in a decade). Interestingly, even when emotional stimuli were musical, CI users' skills relied more on proces...
These results suggest that speech processing remains a clinical priority even when one is interested in affective skills....
The stimulation rate in cochlear implant (CI) sound coding, or the "carrier" rate in pulses per second (pps), is known to influence pitch perception, as well as loudness perception and sound quality. ...
