Evaluation of a personalized auditory-cognitive training on the improvement of speech understanding in noise in cochlear implanted patients.

Objective: The cochlear implant is a commonly used implantable device for the auditory rehabilitation of severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. The effectiveness of the implant, depends on many factors, including intensive auditory training, which is crucial. Intelligibility in a noisy environment is a current issue and poses a major difficulty for implanted patients.

MRI-confirmed cochlear artery infarct clinically diagnosed in a patient with sickle cell disease: a case report.

Purpose: To corroborate the vascular etiology of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) utilizing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Patient: A 24-year-old male with a history of sickle cell disease experienced sudden SNHL and right horizontal nystagmus, without accompanying vertigo.

Intervention: Audiometric evaluation revealed left-sided SNHL, predominantly affecting high frequencies.

Development of a Semi-Automated Approach for the Quantification of Neuronal Cells in the Spiral Ganglion of the Whole Implanted Gerbil Cochlea, Acquired by Light-Sheet Microscopy.

Introduction: Assessing cochlear implantation's impact on cell loss and preventing post-implant cochlear damage are key areas of focus for hearing preservation research. The preservation of auditory neuronal and sensory neural hearing cells has a positive impact on auditory perception after implantation. This study aimed to provide details on a semi-automated spiral ganglion neuronal cell counting method, developed using whole implanted gerbil cochlea acquisitions with light-sheet microscopy.

Hearing Outcomes from Gamma Knife Treatment for Intracanalicular Vestibular Schwannomas with Good Initial Hearing.

The objective of this study was to describe the long-term hearing outcomes of gamma knife treatment for unilateral progressing vestibular schwannomas (VS) presenting with good initial hearing using audiologic data. A retrospective review was performed between 2010 and 2020 to select patients with progressing unilateral VS and good hearing (AAO-HNS class A) treated with stereotactic gamma knife surgery (GKS). Their audiograms were analyzed along with treatment metrics and patient data.