Can old people get benefits from cochlear implants?
| Autor: | Edamatsu Hideo, Eguchi Tomonori, Kawaishi Junko, Watanabe Kensuke, Yamaguchi Shintaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Audiology Speech and Hearing Older patients Otorhinolaryngology Younger adults Cochlear implant otorhinolaryngologic diseases Older deaf people Medicine Hearing improvement business Post implantation Older people Cochlear implantation |
| Zdroj: | Cochlear Implants International. 5:169-171 |
| ISSN: | 1556-9152 1467-0100 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/cii.216 |
| Popis: | More than 2600 Japanese patients had used cochlear implants (CI, Cochlear 22 and 24 channel devices) until June 2003. Half the patients are children and the rest are young people and adults. In most cases, good improvements of hearing have been reported post implantation. In older deaf people, however, cochlear implantation has not been indicated so frequently in Japan as in the rest of the world. So far, only 17 Japanese patients over 80 years have been implanted. The reasons there are so few older patients seemed to be as follows: how long can older people use their cochlear implant after operation and how much benefit can they get from a cochlear implant? In this study, we report two cases of older patients on whom we hesitated to perform cochlear implantation because of their age. They had different needs for a cochlear implant and their hearing after implants also differed. The first case improved her hearing unexpectedly well, but in the second case hearing improvement was limited. The results showed that there is greater individual variance in older people than in young people and younger adults. However, even a patient over 80 could begin to communicate by telephone. |
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