Comparison of an Electromagnetic Middle Ear Implant and Hearing Aid Word Recognition Performance to Word Recognition Performance Obtained Under Earphones.

Objective: To report the results of patients with the Maxum middle ear implant (MEI) and compare word recognition scores (WRS) and speech perception gap (SP Gap) of Maxum versus optimally fit hearing aids (HA).

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Setting: Single, private otology clinic.

Evaluating speech perception of the MAXUM middle ear implant versus speech perception under inserts.

Objectives/hypothesis: To evaluate the speech perception of the Ototronix MAXUM middle ear implant relative to the cochlear potential for speech perception of patients.

Study Design: Clinical study chart review.

Methods: We performed an evaluation of data from a prospective clinical study of 10 MAXUM patients.