Deafness - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The scholastic achievement of profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants compared to their normal peers.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The scholastic achievement of children with cochlear implants is one of the most important determinants of recipients' quality of life after cochlear implantation. The present study aimed to study the scholastic achievement of 27 ... Read more...

Conversion of scores between Bamford, Kowal and Bench (BKB) sentences and Arthur Boothroyd (AB) words in quiet for cochlear implant patients.

30 Aug 2009 This paper describes the relationship between the scores obtained in the Bamford, Kowal and Bench (BKB) sentence test and the Arthur Boothroyd (AB) word test in quiet for a group of 71 cochlear implant users. Each subject was tested at the same ... Read more...

The influence of the coupling of actuation drivers of implantable hearing systems on the mechanics of the middle ear.

30 Aug 2009 We used multifrequency tympanometry to provide middle ear mechanics after implantation of different implantable hearing aids. A total of 34 patients were included in the investigation; 19 of them were fitted with the Otologics system and 15 with the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Deafness - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The scholastic achievement of profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants compared to their normal peers. 30 Aug 2009
• Conversion of scores between Bamford, Kowal and Bench (BKB) sentences and Arthur Boothroyd (AB) words in quiet for cochlear implant patients. 30 Aug 2009
• The influence of the coupling of actuation drivers of implantable hearing systems on the mechanics of the middle ear. 30 Aug 2009
• Keyhole cochlear implantation surgery. 30 Aug 2009
• Cochlear implantation in children with keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome: outcomes in three cases. 30 Aug 2009
• Electrode interaction in cochlear implant recipients: comparison of straight and contour electrode arrays. 24 Aug 2009
• Simulated phase-locking stimulation: an improved speech processing strategy for cochlear implants. 24 Aug 2009
• Long-term effects of auditory training in severely or profoundly deaf children. 29 Jun 2009
• Vocal singing by prelingually-deafened children with cochlear implants. 24 Jun 2009
• Spatial hearing with a single cochlear implant in late-implanted adults. 14 Jun 2009
• Gene therapy in the inner ear using adenovirus vectors. 31 May 2009
• The effect of changes in stimulus level on electrically evoked cortical auditory potentials. 30 May 2009
• Psychometric validity of the Cochlear Implant Function Index (CIFI): a quality of life assessment tool for adult cochlear implant users. 30 May 2009
• Correlation between intra-operative high rate neural response telemetry measurements and behaviourally obtained threshold and comfort levels in patients using Nucleus 24 cochlear implants. 30 May 2009
• How we do it: clinical management of the child receiving a second, bilateral cochlear implant. 30 May 2009
• Differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into spiral ganglion neurons: a therapeutic approach to deafness. 4 May 2009
• Effects of delayed treatment with combined GDNF and continuous electrical stimulation on spiral ganglion cell survival in deafened guinea pigs. 29 Apr 2009
• Results of partial deafness cochlear implantation using various electrode designs. 20 Apr 2009
• Hearing conservation surgery using the Hybrid-L electrode. Results from the first clinical trial at the Medical University of Hannover. 20 Apr 2009
• Comparison of dual-time-constant and fast-acting automatic gain control (AGC) systems in cochlear implants. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Deafness'

Definition: A general term for the complete loss of the ability to hear from both ears.

Descriptor UI: D003638

Alternative terms: Deafness; Bilateral Deafness; Deafness, Bilateral; Hearing Loss, Complete; Complete Hearing Loss; Prelingual Deafness; Deafness, Prelingual; Deaf-Mutism; Deaf Mutism; Deafness, Acquired; Acquired Deafness; Hearing Loss, Extreme; Extreme Hearing Loss;

Related Mesh Headings: Hearing Aids; Lipreading;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C09.218.458.341.186; C10.597.751.418.341.186; C23.888.592.763.393.341.186;

Online Note: use DEAFNESS to search DEAF-MUTISM 1966-79

History Note: DEAF-MUTISM was heading 1963-79

Technical Notes: differentiate from HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; see various specific terms under HEARING LOSS