[PDF] Top 20 Cochlear implant in patients with incomplete partition type II: surgical considerations

... normal cochlear implantation. 11 None of the patients had CSF leak due to dural tear during the preparation of implant bed and tie-down ...of implant migration in a study by Lauria et al in ... See full document

... cluding 3 contralateral normal-hearing ears from the patients with unilateral IP-II malformation. The age range was 1–10 years (mean, 5 years), and the sex distribution of 8 males and 5 females of the ... See full document

... Only patients with a clinical indication, most likely unexplained hearing loss or chronic or recurrent otitis me- dia, were likely to have undergone radiologic ...and cochlear malformations and to consider ... See full document

... of cochlear implant candidates not only to identify inner ear congenital and acquired abnormalities or cochlear nerve anomalies but also to detect temporal bone abnormalities or variations that may ... See full document

... be more extensive in vivo. Another point is the used HighFocus MS electrode. It differs from other electrodes by its basal diameter. It can be assumed that in smaller electrodes (e.g., Cochlear slim straight) and ... See full document

... A cochlear implant is an electric device that turns sound into electrical ...internal implant, the receiver-stimulator, and the electrode ...the implant by an antenna behind the ear. The coil ... See full document

... These findings imply that better test results in the form of shorter latencies and higher amplitudes are obtained with earlier implantation age and shorter duration of hearing loss before implantation. These results are ... See full document

... Furthermore, the relationship between duration of deafness and age has not been thoroughly investigated to the extent of providing a definitive conclusion. A study by Roberts et al. found that older patients ... See full document

... new cochlear implant gen- erations, a tendency already shown by Côté et ...of cochlear implant, in this case there was no failure of the internal device related to the fabrication of the ... See full document

... multichannel cochlear implant and to suggest criteria for the radiographic evaluation of postimplant ...forty-one patients, 73 female and 68 male, had multichannel cochlear implants ...135 ... See full document

... Considering the development in industrial countries where population is get- ting older and with all the outgrowths of age related comorbidities on the one hand. On the other hand, especially younger people tend to move ... See full document

... the patients reported that speech was ...called cochlear implant, can be implanted in the inner ear and can restore partial hearing to profoundly deaf ... See full document

... in cochlear implants and changes in candi- dature might have rendered the results irrelevant to today’s ...Two considerations counter those ...and patients receiving implants in England today, are ... See full document

... of cochlear implantation are associated with either the surgical technique or implantation of a foreign body or device ...(requiring surgical interventions or hospitalization for medical ... See full document

... Speech perception enhancement by increasing speech intelligibility using CI is a research area which haven potential to change the lives of millions of people. Improving speech coding in CI is a promising area in this ... See full document

... analysed patients, 21 reportedly had family support to undergo the procedure, and during the whole pre-and post-surgical procedure as ...the implant evaluated all subjects, and none re- vealed any ... See full document

... description, type I malformation con- sists of the caudal displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum; type II (or Arnold-Chiari malformation) consists in the herniation of the ... See full document

... Several cochlear implant devices have been developed over the years ...[1]. Cochlear implant system as shown in ...based Cochlear processing System (CPS) is ... See full document

... In this article I have attempted to show that the impetus for the development of (disabled) technologies such as CI’s as a case study. These developments occur within a purview of contestations over ontologies of ... See full document

... Conclusion - Cochlear implantation is a miracle for the hearing impaired persons. This paper focuses on signal and neural networks technique used for speech signal processing and its commercial use in different ... See full document