Analysis of Equilibrium Function in Cochlear Implant Patients.

Facial Nerve Stimulation in Cochlear Implant Patients

The Cochlear Implant

The studies on cochlear implants have been conducted in the United States, Austria, Brasil, France, Finland, and some other countries. Up to now, this technique does not seem to have a wide spread application. Indeed it can only apply cases of deafness still presenting sufficient neural remnants to transmit the message. Moreover, the patient must be totally deaf( quasi­ complete loss of har cel...

Imaging in cochlear implant patients

Imaging procedures are a mainstream tool in the daily ENT workflow. Cochlear Implant patients are representing a special population with specific demands for imaging. There are different imaging techniques available for pre-operative evaluation, surgery and postoperative controls with different indications and consequences. High-resolution computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are ...

Case-control analysis of cochlear implant performance in elderly patients.

OBJECTIVE To characterize speech perception performance in elderly cochlear implant users compared with younger adult users. DESIGN Case-control retrospective analysis from January 1, 1999, to January 28, 2008. SETTING Tertiary care, academic practice cochlear implant program. PATIENTS Medical records for 78 patients with age at implantation of 65 years or older were analyzed for ear-spec...

‏‎interpersonal function of language in subtitling

‏‎translation as a comunicative process is always said to be associated with various aspects of meaning loss or gain. subtitling as a mode of translating, due to special discoursal and textual conditions imposed upon it, is believed to be an obvious case of this loss or gain. presenting the spoken sound track of a film in writing and synchronizing the perception of this text by the viewers with...