Digisonic SP® Binaural cochlear implant: the coronal tunneled approach

Abstract

The cost of cochlear implants has been one of the main impediments to bilateral rehabilitation. The Digisonic SP® Binaural Neurelec device addresses this issue and exposes patients to less risk through a minimally invasive implantation procedure.

Stylomastoid Foramen Osteoma Unique Challenges for Appropriate Management

“…These complications have been a reason for concern in health care centers during the implementation of new surgical approaches and can be divided into minor and major complications [23,33].…”

“…Minor complications include transient peripheral facial palsy, posterior meatal wall injuries, annulus and tympanic membrane injuries, perilymphatic fistula, bleeding, corda tympani nerve injuries, and hematoma. Major complications include electrodes problems (misplacement, damage, inserting problems compression of electrodes, dislocation), flap dehiscence or infection, cholesteatoma, otomastoiditis, facial palsy with sequela, CSF leak, meningitis and incapacitating otological symptoms [23,33] .…”

“…The binaural sum is the result of central auditory processing and demonstrates the ability of the central auditory nervous system to integrate and use the information Research Article from both ears. The "squelch" effect is the ability of the auditory system to use information from both ears when speech and noise are spatially separated [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

Performance of Cochlear Implants in Pediatric Patients with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder

“…It also has been shown as an alternative for hearing rehabilitation in many conditions, such as in deafness with residual hearing at low frequencies and AN. In AN cases, CI is an option when the patient has not had a good response to conventional hearing aids and an adequate development of speech [1,3,5,10,11] .Although it has been demonstrated that the earlier use of CI in children with AN with severe or profound hearing loss leads to an important benefit in most cases, the situation is still challenging in cases when the hearing loss is moderate [1,3] . Thus, CI has shown conflicting results worldwide, probably because AN must be heterogeneous and have different etiologies [5] .…”

“…It also has been shown as an alternative for hearing rehabilitation in many conditions, such as in deafness with residual hearing at low frequencies and AN. In AN cases, CI is an option when the patient has not had a good response to conventional hearing aids and an adequate development of speech [1,3,5,10,11] .…”