Authors
P Blamey, F Artieres, D Başkent, F Bergeron, A Beynon, E Burke, N Dillier, R Dowell, B Fraysse, S Gallégo, PJ Govaerts, K Green, AM Huber, A Kleine-Punte, B Maat, M Marx, D Mawman, I Mosnier, AF O’Connor, S O’Leary, A Rousset, K Schauwers, H Skarzynski, PH Skarzynski, O Sterkers, A Terranti, E Truy, P Van de Heyning, F Venail, C Vincent, DS Lazard
Publication date
2013
Journal
Audiology and Neurotology
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
36-47
Publisher
Karger Publishers
Description
Objective
To update a 15-year-old study of 800 postlinguistically deaf adult patients showing how duration of severe to profound hearing loss, age at cochlear implantation (CI), age at onset of severe to profound hearing loss, etiology and CI experience affected CI outcome. Study Design
Retrospective multicenter study. Methods
Data from 2251 adult patients implanted since 2003 in 15 international centers were collected and speech scores in quiet were converted to percentile ranks to remove differences between centers. Results
The negative effect of long duration of severe to profound hearing loss was less important in the new data than in 1996; the effects of age at CI and age at onset of severe to profound hearing loss were delayed until older ages; etiology had a smaller effect, and the effect of CI experience was greater with a steeper learning curve. Patients with longer durations of severe to profound hearing …Scholar articles
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