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MRI scanning patients with cochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants

3 November 2023 | | Auditory Implants | CI, cochlear implant, ABI, auditory brainstem implant, MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, pain

In the last five to six decades, MRI scanning has gone from physics experiments in Nottingham University through to Nobel prize-winning work by Sir Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur, to a ‘routine’ imaging modality with an estimated 60 million MRI...

Vascular vertigo and dizziness: diagnostic criteria

3 November 2022 | | Neurotology | Vertigo, brainstem, cerebellum, dizziness, imbalance, infarction, stroke

This diagnostic criteria is one of the latest produced by The Bárány Society. It is a useful addition to previous ones for vestibular disorders. Vascular vertigo/dizziness by definition is caused by stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA), isolated labyrinthine infarction/haemorrhage and...

Is there hope of hearing for postmeningitic patients deemed unsuitable for a cochlear implant?

1 May 2019 | | Neurotology, Otology | Auditory brainstem implant, cochlear implantation, cochlear ossification, deafness, hearing loss, meningitis

Rehabilitation of patients with profound hearing loss deemed unsuitable for cochlear implants is challenging. An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a viable option for these patients. This paper evaluates auditory and speech perception outcome measures following ABI in 10 postmeningitic...

Cochlear microphonics in children

1 March 2017 | | Auditory brainstem response, autism spectral disorders, auditory neuropathy spectral disorder, cochlear microphonics, sensorineural hearing loss

Cochlear microphonics (CM) are generated mainly from outer hair cells and are routinely tested in children with hearing loss in some parts of the world. In this retrospective study, the aim was to compare the cochlear microphonics features (mainly CM...

Can intraoperative electrically evoked auditory brainstem responses predict the outcome of cochlear implantation?

1 March 2016 | | Auditory brainstem implant, Cochlear implant, Electrical auditory brainstem response

Electrophysiology during cochlear implant surgery remains an issue of debate among the various centres. In the present study, the latencies and quality of the eABR waveforms from 74 adult implanted patients were analysed. In addition, four children with severe cochlear...