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Risk factors for loss of ipsilateral residual hearing after hybrid cochlear implantation
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Risk factors for loss of ipsilateral residual hearing after hybrid cochlear implantation

Jonathan C Kopelovich, Lina A J Reiss, Jacob J Oleson, Emily S Lundt, Bruce J Gantz and Marlan R Hansen
Otology & neurotology, Vol.35(8), pp.1403-1408
09/2014
DOI: 10.1097/mao.0000000000000389
PMCID: PMC4152771
PMID: 24979394
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/4152771View
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Abstract

Residual low-frequency acoustic hearing benefits cochlear implantees in difficult listening situations such as understanding speech in noise and music appreciation. Most subjects retain functional residual hearing in the operated ear. A small number of patients, however, will lose significant ipsilateral residual hearing after short-electrode cochlear implantation. The objectives of this retrospective series are to determine whether predisposition to hearing loss after implantation exists in a subset of patients and to assess the functional impact of this hearing loss on clinical measures of combined electric and acoustic hearing. Retrospective case series. Multicenter clinical trial; tertiary care facility. Hearing preservation cochlear implant recipients. Frequency-averaged ipsilateral hearing loss at 1 year after activation. Eighty-five patients from the Hybrid S8 FDA trial had serial postoperative audiometric measurements. Twenty-two of these patients, implanted at the home institution, provided additional medical data. Univariate analysis (Pearson's, Spearman's, Student's t test) showed that the severity of hearing loss at 1 year after activation was significantly correlated with age, male gender, and noise-induced hearing loss as the etiology of hearing impairment. A multivariate regression model corroborated these variables. No other medical factors were predictive. Clinical measures of speech perception (Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant and Hearing in Noise Test) worsened with hearing loss in ipsilateral but not bilateral listening conditions. Age, male gender, and a history of noise-induced hearing loss correlate with the severity of hearing loss at 1 year after activation. Even the most severely affected patients benefit from bilateral electric and acoustic inputs.
Hearing Loss - physiopathology Hearing Loss - epidemiology Humans Middle Aged Risk Factors Male Auditory Perception - physiology Speech Perception - physiology Young Adult Hearing Aged, 80 and over Adult Cochlear Implantation - adverse effects Female Aged Functional Laterality - physiology Retrospective Studies Cochlear Implants Hearing Tests Hearing Loss - surgery

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