Outcomes from adult implantation, the first 100 patients.

摘要: We present the outcome of implantation in first 100 adult patients treated under Midland Cochlear Implant Programme. All were post-lingually deaf with profound or total hearing loss. Performance was tested lip-reading, implant only and combined lip-reading modes using BKB sentences, connected discourse tracking (CDT) environmental sound recognition. Assessments made at nine 18 months post-implant. The dominant aetiologies idiopathic meningitis. Meningitis associated greatest numbers ossified cochleas. Forty-three per cent cases partial ossification identified surgery. Four became non-users their devices, however majority used implants for more than 12 hours each day. mean scores post-implant, mode, recognition 56.7 cent, sentences 46.6 (80 scored above 0 cent) CDT 31.2 words minute (w.p.m.) (62 zero cent). In lip reading mode scores, months, 81.5 65.8 w.p.m. results sustained months. Patients reported that significantly reduced handicap. Pre-operative measures depression also Results Post-operative audiological outcomes electrical stimulation correlated length deafness. suggest performance is related to number active electrodes.