Publications by authors named "Fanny Merklen"
Cochlear implants are the most common and successful sensory neuroprosthetic devices. However, reimplantation can be required for medical reasons, device failure, or technological upgrading. Resolving the problem driving the intervention and offering stable or better audiological results are the main challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Teleotoscopy requires the assistance of telehealth facilitators; but their training requirements remain to be determined. We evaluated the use of an otoscopy simulator to train facilitators to remote otoscopies sent via the Internet using a teleaudiology platform.
Design: Neurotologists experts were asked to identify images using the otoscopy simulator and to perform an identification task of significant anatomical landmarks.
Objectives: To assess the feasibility of using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in young children with cochlear implants (CIs) and study the effect of intracochlear position on electrophysiological and behavioral measurements.
Methods: A total of 40 children with either unilateral or bilateral cochlear implants were prospectively included in the study. Electrode placement and insertion angles were studied in 55 Cochlear implants (16 straight arrays and 39 perimodiolar arrays), using either CBCT or X-ray imaging.
Objectives: With cochlear implantation now a routine procedure, reimplantation is becoming more commonplace for medical/surgical complications or device malfunctions. This study investigated the indications for reimplantation and the auditory outcomes following reimplantation surgery in prelingually-deafened children.
Methods: Of the 539 prelingually deafened children implanted between 1990 and 2013, 45 were reimplanted (8.