Authors
Peter J Blamey, Bert Maat, Deniz Başkent, Deborah Mawman, Elaine Burke, Norbert Dillier, Andy Beynon, Andrea Kleine-Punte, Paul J Govaerts, Piotr H Skarzynski, Alexander M Huber, Françoise Sterkers-Artières, Paul Van de Heyning, Stephen O'Leary, Bernard Fraysse, Kevin Green, Olivier Sterkers, Frédéric Venail, Henryk Skarzynski, Christophe Vincent, Eric Truy, Richard Dowell, François Bergeron, Diane S Lazard
Publication date
2015/2/18
Journal
Ear and hearing
Publisher
LWW
Description
Objectives:
To compare speech perception outcomes between bilateral implantation (cochlear implants [CIs]) and bimodal rehabilitation (one CI on one side plus one hearing aid [HA] on the other side) and to explore the clinical factors that may cause asymmetric performances in speech intelligibility between the two ears in case of bilateral implantation.
Design:
Retrospective data from 2247 patients implanted since 2003 in 15 international centers were collected. Intelligibility scores, measured in quiet and in noise, were converted into percentile ranks to remove differences between centers. The influence of the listening mode among three independent groups, one CI alone (n= 1572), bimodal listening (CI/HA, n= 589), and bilateral CIs (CI/CI, n= 86), was compared in an analysis taking into account the influence of other factors such as duration of profound hearing loss, age, etiology, and duration of CI experience …
Scholar articles
PJ Blamey, B Maat, D Baskent, D Mawman, E Burke… - Ear and Hearing, 2015