In-vivo characterisation of an implanted microphone and totally implantable active middle ear implant.

Objective: To objectively evaluate acoustic sensitivity of the implanted microphone, and maximum stable gain of a totally implantable active middle ear implant.

Design: Prospective, single centre evaluation.

Study Sample: Fourteen adult patients.

Active Middle Ear Implant Patient Outcomes With Adaptive Feedback Canceller.

Objective: Evaluation of the audiological patient performance with an upgrade of the firmware from the fixed feedback canceller (FFC) to the adaptive feedback canceller (AFC) on an active middle ear implant.

Study Design: Retrospective observational nonrandomized group study.

Setting: Private hospital.

Surgical and audiological outcomes of a fully implantable middle ear implant: early results from a retrospective multicentre study.

Purpose: This paper reports the surgical and audiological outcomes of a large series of patients who received a fully implantable middle ear implant (MEI): carina (Cochlear, Australia).

Methods: This is a multicentre retrospective study involving three tertiary referral centres. Patient data were collected for the first 42 consecutive patients who were fitted with the MEI between 2014 and 2019 (Sheffield from February 2017 to January 2019; São Paulo from April 2015 to September 2017; Porto from December 2014 to May 2017).

The first results of a totally implanted active middle ear device.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the first outcomes of a fully implantable active middle ear device.

Methods: Retrospective observational nonrandomized group study.

Settings: Private hospital.