Test-Retest Reliability of the Coordinate Response Measure in Adults with Normal Hearing or Cochlear Implants.

Background: Speech perception in noise is especially challenging for cochlear implant (CI) recipients; thus, speech in noise tests are used to clinically evaluate functional hearing with CIs. The coordinate response measure (CRM) corpus can be utilized in an adaptive speech perception test with competing speakers as the masker. Determining the critical difference for CRM thresholds can enable it to be used to evaluate changes in CI outcomes for clinical and research purposes.

Is There a Difference in Hospital Stay between Patients undergoing Translabyrinthine or Retrosigmoid Surgery for Vestibular Schwannoma Stratified by Tumor Size?

 To date, no European study has compared approach-specific outcome data in vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery stratified by tumor size. We analyzed hospital length of stay (LOS), intensive therapy/high-dependency unit (ITU/HDU) LOS, and complications in patients undergoing VS surgery via the translabyrinthine (TL) versus retrosigmoid (RS) approaches, stratifying for tumor size.  Prospective database undergoing retrospective review.

Revision surgery for residual or recurrent vestibular schwannoma.

Objective: Assess the requirement for and describe the complication rates of revision surgery for vestibular schwannoma.

Study Design: Retrospective case review.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.