Monaural or binaural sound deprivation in postlingual hearing loss: Cochlear implant in the worse ear.

Objectives/hypothesis: To determine whether speech recognition scores (SRS) differ between adults with long-term auditory deprivation in the implanted ear and adults who received cochlear implant (CI) in the nonsound-deprived ear, either for hearing aid-assisted or due to rapidly deteriorating hearing loss.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Methods: Speech recognition scores at evaluations (3 and 14 months postimplantation) conducted with CI alone at 60-dB sound pressure level intensity were compared in 15 patients (4 with bilateral severe hearing loss; 11 with asymmetric hearing loss, 7 of which had contralateral hearing aid), all with long-term auditory deprivation (mean duration 16.

Cochlear Nerve Stimulation in the Internal Auditory Canal in Ossified Cochlea: A Case Study.

Objective: To present the first reported case of intraneural direct cochlear nerve stimulation in a human being.

Study Design: This is a case report.

Results: A 23-year-old patient with bilateral progressive hearing loss associated with bilateral complete semicircular canal aplasia and ossified cochleas underwent cochlear implantation.

Rehabilitative management of oropharyngeal dysphagia in acute care settings: data from a large Italian teaching hospital.

A high incidence of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) in acute-care settings has been reported; however, no data on its management are found in the literature. Here we report the experience with rehabilitative management of OD in a large Italian hospital. The characteristics of inpatients with OD during 2004 have been studied prospectively.