Clinical perspective on hearing preservation in cochlear implantation, the University of Iowa experience.

Hear Res

The University of Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA United States.

Published: December 2022

Preservation of residual acoustic hearing has emerged as an important concept for those individuals undergoing cochlear implantation with residual low frequency hearing. Acoustic plus electric speech processing improves hearing outcomes in quiet, enables melody recognition, preserves spatial hearing if there is acoustic hearing in both ears and significantly improves hearing in noise. The development of our experience with acoustic plus electric processing is reviewed along with clinical trials and patient outcomes that our team has documented over the past twenty years.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482999PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2022.108487DOI Listing

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