Cochlear implants are the first example of a neural prosthesis that can substitute a sensory organ: they bypass the malfunctioning auditory periphery of profoundly-deaf people to electrically stimulate their auditory nerve. The history of cochlear implants dates back to 1957, when Djourno and Eyriès managed, for the first time, to elicit sound ...
Macherey, Olivier, Carlyon, Robert
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Bilateral cochlear implantation [PDF]
Binaural hearing has certain benefits while listening in noisy environments. It provides the listeners with access to time, level and spectral differences between sound signals, perceived by the two ears. However, single sided deaf (SSD) or unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users cannot experience these binaural benefits due to the acoustic input coming
Anandhan, Dhanasingh, Ingeborg, Hochmair
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Development of audiovisual comprehension skills in prelingually deaf children with cochlear implants [PDF]
Objective: The present study investigated the development of audiovisual comprehension skills in prelingually deaf children who received cochlear implants.
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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Effects of congenital hearing loss and cochlear implantation on audiovisual speech perception in infants and children [PDF]
Purpose: Cochlear implantation has recently become available as an intervention strategy for young children with profound hearing impairment. In fact, infants as young as 6 months are now receiving cochlear implants (CIs), and even younger infants are ...
Bergeson, Tonya R. +2 more
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Ipsilateral Vestibular Schwannoma after Cochlear Implantation
Objective. The vestibular schwannoma incidence rate is approximately 4.2 per 100,000/year. Thus far, about 700,000 cochlear implantations have been performed worldwide; therefore, the occurrence of vestibular schwannoma postcochlear implantations can be ...
S. Tüpker +7 more
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Complications of Cochlear Implant at Hawler Teaching Center (Rizgary Teaching Hospital)
Background and objectives: Cochlear implantation caries many morbidity, complications and even failure which may have an economic burden to candidates and medical administration.
Azhen Ismael Hussen, Arsalan A. Shem
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Analysis of ceiling effects occurring with speech recognition tests in adult cochlear-implanted patients [PDF]
This article presents a simple method of analysing speech test scores which are biased through ceiling effects. Eighty postlingually deafened adults implanted with a MED-EL COMBI 40/40+ cochlear implant (CI) were administered a numbers test and a ...
Anderson, Ilona +9 more
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Cochlear implantation in a patient with mucopolysaccharidosis IVA
Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (OMIM 253000; also known as Morquio A syndrome) is associated with skeletal, airway, and hearing abnormalities. Cochlear implantation is an effective intervention for patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
Kyoko Nagao +7 more
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Bilateral cochlear implantation or bimodal listening in the paediatric population : retrospective analysis of decisive criteria [PDF]
Introduction: In children with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss, bilateral hearing can be achieved by either bimodal stimulation (CIHA) or bilateral cochlear implantation (BICI).
Dhondt, Cleo +2 more
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Cochlear Implantation in Extraordinary Cases
Background: Although cochlear implantation has been almost a standard otological procedure worldwide, it may still create a dilemma for the surgeon in some unusual instances such as Seckel syndrome, aural atresia and posterior fossa arachnoid cyst ...
Fatih Çelenk +3 more
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