Is the spread of excitation different between adults and children cochlear implants users?

Purpose: While cochlea is adult size at birth, etiologies and bone density may differ between children and adults. Differences in neural response thresholds (tNRT) and the spread of excitation (SOE) width may impact the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in speech processor fitting.

Aim: To identify whether neural response telemetry threshold and spread of excitation width are similar in adults and children.

Is the spread of excitation width correlated to the speech recognition in cochlear implant users?

Purpose: To assess whether there is an interference of the spread of excitation (SOE) on speech recognition.

Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study, approved by the institution's ethics committee (CAAE03409212.8.

Important factors in the cognitive development of children with hearing impairment: case studies of candidates for cochlear implants.

Introduction The factors that affect the development of children with and without hearing disabilities are similar, provided their innate communication abilities are taken into account. Parents need to mourn the loss of the expected normally hearing child, and it is important that parents create bonds of affection with their child. Objective To conduct a postevaluation of the development and cognition of 20 candidates for cochlear implants between 1 and 13 years of age and to observe important factors in their development.

Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples.

Introduction:  Cochlear implants may guarantee sound perception and the ability to detect speech at a close-to-normal hearing intensity; however, differences have been observed among implantees in terms of performance on discrimination tests and speech recognition.

Objective:  To identify whether patients with post-meningitis deafness perform similarly to patients with hearing loss due to other causes.

Method:  A retrospective clinical study involving post-lingual patients who had been using Nucleus-22 or Nucleus-24 cochlear implants for at least 1 year.

Auditory brainstem implant outcomes and MAP parameters: report of experiences in adults and children.

Unlabelled: The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) was first developed to help neurofibromatosis type 2 patients. Recently, its use has been recently extended to adults with non-tumor etiologies and children with profound hearing loss who were not candidates for a cochlear implant (CI). Although the results has been extensively reported, the stimulation parameters involved behind the outcomes have received less attention.

Neural response thresholds in the Nucleus Contour cochlear implant before and after stylet removal.

Conclusion: The study shows that there are differences in the measurement of the action potentials with and without the stylet in the Nucleus Freedom Contour Advance that are higher in the apex than in the base of the cochlea.

Objectives: To determine if there are differences in the intraoperative impedances and in the neural response telemetry threshold values in the Nucleus Freedom Contour Advance before and after stylet removal.

Subjects And Methods: This was a prospective clinical study.