The Listening Network and Cochlear Implant Benefits in Hearing-Impaired Adults.

Older adults with mild or no hearing loss make more errors and expend more effort listening to speech. Cochlear implants (CI) restore hearing to deaf patients but with limited fidelity. We hypothesized that patient-reported hearing and health-related quality of life in CI patients may similarly vary according to age.

The cochlear implant as a tinnitus treatment.

Introduction And Objectives: Tinnitus is a symptom of high prevalence in patients with cochlear pathology. We studied the evolution of tinnitus in patients undergoing unilateral cochlear implantation for treatment of profound hearing loss.

Methods: This was a longitudinal, retrospective study of patients that underwent unilateral cochlear implantation and who had bilateral tinnitus.

[Utility of bone replacement material in cochlear implant, skull base and sinus surgery: our experience].

Introduction: To solve certain problems that arise in cochlear implant, sinus and skull base surgery, the use of bone cement (PolyBone®) has been introduced in our department. With the goal of making use of surgical bone cements, combining bone growth factors and polyphosphates has allowed the study of these biological materials.

Materials And Results: We present a total of 28 patients aged between 2 and 69 years (mean age of 29.

[Evolution of the tubotympanal mucociliary system activity evaluated with scintigraphy, after ventilation tube insertion in adults with chronic otitis media with effusion].

Introduction And Goals: Tubotympanal mucociliary function is damaged in patients with otitis media with effusion. Our objective was to study its situation and recovery after timopanostomy tube insertion.

Methods: We evaluated the mucociliary activity of the ear and Eustachian tube with scintigraphy in four groups of adults with chronic otitis media with effusion after ventilation tube insertion.