outcome of cochlear implantation in post-meningitis deaf children

Outcome of Cochlear Implantation in Post-Meningitis Deaf Children

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cochlear implantation (CI) is an effective procedure for treatment of children with severe to profound Sensori-neural hearing loss (SNHL). In spite of suitable outcome in many patients, choosing the candidates should be regarding to the child age and etiology (congenital o...

Cochlear Implantation in Deaf Children

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Pneumococcal meningitis post-cochlear implantation: preventative measures.

OBJECTIVE Both clinical data and laboratory studies demonstrated the risk of pneumococcal meningitis post-cochlear implantation. This review examines strategies to prevent post-implant meningitis. DATA SOURCES Medline/PubMed database; English articles after 1980. Search terms: cochlear implants, pneumococcus meningitis, streptococcus pneumonia, immunization, prevention. REVIEW METHODS Narra...

Speech Feature Discrimination in Deaf Children Following Cochlear Implantation

Speech feature discrimination is a fundamental perceptual skill that is often assumed to underlie word recognition and sentence comprehension performance. To investigate the development of speech feature discrimination in deaf children with cochlear implants, we conducted a retrospective analysis of results from the Minimal Pairs Test (Robbins et al., 1988) selected from patients enrolled in a ...

Cerebral lateralization for language in deaf children with cochlear implantation.

Functional Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (fTCD) was used to investigate the effects of early acoustic deprivation and subsequent reafferentation on cerebral dominance for language in deaf children provided with Cochlear Implantation (CI). Twenty children with CI (13 in right ear and 7 in left ear) and 20 controls matched for age, sex and handedness were administered a fTCD animation desc...

Meningitis and cochlear implantation.