Cochlear implantation for patients with single-sided deafness or asymmetrical hearing loss: a systematic review of the evidence

A Van Zon, JPM Peters, I Stegeman, AL Smit… - Otology & …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
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Cochlear Implantation for Patients With Single-Sided Deafness or Asymmetrical Hearing Loss …

Systematic review, meta-analysis and economic modelling of molecular diagnostic tests for antibiotic resistance in tuberculosis.

F Drobniewski, M Cooke, J Jordan… - Health technology …, 2015 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
BACKGROUND: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), especially multidrug-resistant (MDR,
resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid) disease, is associated with a worse patient outcome …

The impact of cochlear implantation on speech understanding, subjective hearing performance, and tinnitus perception in patients with unilateral severe to profound …

D Távora-Vieira, R Marino, A Acharya… - Otology & …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives This study aimed to determine the impact of cochlear implantation on speech
understanding in noise, subjective perception of hearing, and tinnitus perception of adult …

Cochlear implantation improves localization ability in patients with unilateral deafness

D Távora-Vieira, G De Ceulaer, PJ Govaerts… - Ear and …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: One of the major complaints of people with a single-sided deafness is the
inability to localize sound sources. Evidence suggests that subjects with a hearing loss can …

Older and younger adult cochlear implant users: Speech recognition in quiet and noise, quality of life, and music perception

DP Sladen, A Zappler - American Journal of Audiology, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose To determine whether older cochlear implant (CI) listeners differ from younger CI
listeners on measures of speech understanding, music perception, and health-related …

From isolation and dependence to autonomy–expectations before and experiences after cochlear implantation in adult cochlear implant users and their significant …

EM Mäki-Torkko, S Vestergren, H Harder… - Disability and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The aim of the study was to examine pre-operative expectations and the post-
operative experiences related to cochlear implants (CI) in CI-users and their significant …

Bilateral cochlear implantation for hearing-impaired children: criterion of candidacy derived from an observational study

RES Lovett, DA Vickers, AQ Summerfield - Ear and Hearing, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Policy-makers have struggled to define the minimum degree of hearing
impairment at which children should be offered cochlear implants rather than the less …

Sequential bilateral cochlear implantation improves working performance, quality of life, and quality of hearing

K Härkönen, I Kivekäs, M Rautiainen, V Kotti… - Acta oto …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Conclusions: This prospective study shows that working performance, quality of life (QoL),
and quality of hearing (QoH) are better with two compared with a single cochlear implant …

Increased audiovisual integration in cochlear‐implanted deaf patients: independent components analysis of longitudinal positron emission tomography data

K Strelnikov, J Rouger, S Lagleyre… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It has been demonstrated in earlier studies that patients with a cochlear implant have
increased abilities for audio‐visual integration because the crude information transmitted by …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term asymmetric hearing affects cochlear implantation outcomes differently in adults with pre-and postlingual hearing loss

I Boisvert, CM McMahon, RC Dowell, B Lyxell - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In many countries, a single cochlear implant is offered as a treatment for a bilateral hearing
loss. In cases where there is asymmetry in the amount of sound deprivation between the …