1. New Perspectives for Middle Ear Implants: First Results in Otosclerosis With Mixed Hearing Loss
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Jacques Magnan, Renaud Meller, Frédéric Venail, Jean Pierre Lavieille, Laurent Tardivet, Arnaud Deveze, Service ENT, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), Service de pédiatrie ENT, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Université Gui de Chauliac, and Hamel, Christian
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,MESH: Ossicular Replacement ,Hearing loss ,Dentistry ,Prosthesis Design ,MESH: Hearing Loss, Mixed Conductive-Sensorineural ,MESH: Auditory Perception ,Labyrinthitis ,Bone conduction ,otorhinolaryngologic diseases ,medicine ,Humans ,MESH: Bone Conduction ,[SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Aged ,Hearing Loss, Mixed Conductive-Sensorineural ,Stapes ,MESH: Aged ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Middle Aged ,business.industry ,MESH: Follow-Up Studies ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,MESH: Male ,Surgery ,Ossicular Prosthesis ,MESH: Otosclerosis ,Ossicular Replacement ,Otosclerosis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Auditory Perception ,Middle ear ,MESH: Ossicular Prosthesis ,Female ,[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Sensorineural hearing loss ,sense organs ,Implant ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Bone Conduction ,MESH: Female ,MESH: Prosthesis Design ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
International audience; Middle ear implantation is an efficient procedure to restore moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss (HL) in selected patients. Implantation of such devices requires ossicular chain integrity. Patients suffering from otosclerosis with mixed HL should be eligible for this treatment after stapes surgery with air-bone gap closure. To address this issue, we report four cases of middle ear implantation after or during stapes surgery. Results and complications obtained with Vibrant SoundBridge, MedEl and Middle Ear Transducer, Otologics are reported. Audiologic results were similar to those obtained in cases of sensorineural HL. One case of postoperative labyrinthitis was observed.
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- 2007
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