as a result of the enlightened attitude of the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Board are good units, that is they are staffed in a manner commensurate with the importance of the problemMental deficiency is a social and legal concept and anyone who has had experience of the problem will know that there are many children classed as mental defectives who will show very gratifying results if speci...

Lundin, K. 2016. Experiences from Cochlear Implantation and Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Adults and Children. Electrophysiological Measurements, Hearing Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1183. 104 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9483-4. Cochlear implants (CIs) and auditory b...

Since the first cochlear implants (CI) were fitted in children with congenital and acquired deafness at the ENT Department of the Medical University of Hannover, with follow-up rehabilitation at the Cochlear Implant Centre Hannover (CIC), we have gained over ten years of experience in this field. Today the operation is a standard procedure. To date CI surgery has been performed in Hannover on s...

LEOPARD syndrome is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease, which is characterized with cutaneous pigmented patches, electrocardiographic changes, ocular hypertelorism, retarded growth, pulmonic stenosis, genital abnormalities and congenital deafness. The gene of this disease have high penetrance but expression is varied and incomplete forms may be seen. We report a 23 year-old woman wi...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the feasibility of the use of a modified postural control test under altered sensory conditions in children over 8 years of age, and (2) to assess how deaf children use sensory information for postural control when they have normal or abnormal vestibular responses, and if hearing input from a unilateral cochlear implant, changes their postural behavior. PATIENTS We...

H earing loss is a very common congenital disorder affecting one in 1000 newborns. More than 50% of deafness cases in the paediatric population have a genetic cause with autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked, or mitochondrial patterns of inheritance. Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), particularly in the 12S rRNA and tRNA genes, have been found to be one of the most important c...