One-Year Follow up of Auditory Performance in Post-Lingually Deafened Adults Implanted with the Neurelec Digisonic® Sp/saphyr® Neo Cochlear Implant System

Abstract

This study aimed to quantify outcomes in a group of patients who were implanted with an Oticon Medical Neurelec (Vallauris, France) cochlear implant system, the Digisonic® SP/Saphyr® Neo. Ten participants took part in this preliminary study. Their speech perception capacities were evaluated at 3, 6, and 12-months after cochlear implant activation and compared to pre-implantation scores and to scores observed with former versions of the sound processor. Compared to former versions of the sound processor, patients using the Saphyr® Neo processor obtained better speech perception scores for sentences in silence at each tests session (3 months: 79%, 6 months: 82% and 12 months: 94%) compared to Digisonic® users (respectively: 58%, 69% and 75%) and Convex sound processor users (resp. 39%, 59% and 51%). These observations confirm that the technological improvements made in the Saphyr® Neo sound processor coupled with the Digisonic® implant, provided quantifiable benefits in speech perception in Quiet compared to former versions of the processor Convex and Digisonic® SP.

Longitudinal Speech Recognition Changes After Cochlear Implant: Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis

“…Screening by title and abstract excluded 1263 articles. Full‐text review of the remaining articles excluded 259 publications, resulting in 22 articles being included in the final analysis 29–50 . The search process is summarized in Figure 1.…”

Autopercepção do benefício auditivo e o reconhecimento de fala em usuários de implante coclear

“…As found in studies similar to this one, with peri-or postlingual adults, implanted for at least a year, the individuals had a good performance in the tests of sentence recognition in quiet. Bento et al (16) found a score for sentence recognition in quiet of 71.3%; Martins et al (17) obtained a maximum score for sentences in quiet of 73.69%; Buarque et al (18) , and Borger et al (19) , respectively, found scores of 68.26% and 94.4% in sentence recognition in quiet, after 12 months using the CI. In this study, the mean percentage of success in the same condition was 79.65%, which is a score similar to those found in the other studies in the literature.…”