Stimulation of the cochlear nucleus with multichannel auditory brainstem implants and long-term results: Freiburg patients
| Autor: | N. Marangos, Matthias Stecker, R. Laszig, Wolf-Peter Sollmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
Auditory perception
Adult Cochlear Nucleus Male medicine.medical_specialty Neurofibromatosis 2 Adolescent Hearing loss Lipreading Prosthesis Implantation Electric Stimulation Therapy Audiology Prosthesis Design Cochlear nucleus otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Hearing Loss Central Neurofibromatosis type 2 Translabyrinthine approach business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Electrodes Implanted Treatment Outcome Otorhinolaryngology Speech Perception Female Brainstem medicine.symptom business Auditory brainstem implant |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of laryngology and otology. Supplement. (27) |
| ISSN: | 0144-2945 |
| Popis: | Since 1992 18 patients with bilateral retrocochlear deafness have been provided with a multichannel auditory brainstem implant (ABI). The surgical procedure implies tumour removal and ABI implantation in one stage. Most implantations were via the translabyrinthine approach. The long-term follow-up varied between nine and 80 months. In one case auditory perception could not be achieved and in a second case post-operative stimulation was not possible as the subject died due to lung emboli. In all the other cases auditory perception was achieved and only two subjects became non-users during the follow-up period. The presented long-term results suggest that deaf neurofibromatosis type 2 patients regain acoustic contact with the environment, enlarge their communication skills and improve their quality of life by using a multichannel auditory brainstem prosthesis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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