Analysis of aided thresholds in children who have undergone cochlear reimplantation: a ten-year follow-up.
Lucas Bevilacqua Alves da Costa, Leticia Cristina Vicente, Leandra Tabanez do Nascimento Silva and 4 others
PMID 37909539WHAT IT FOUND
For 12 children with hard device failure, aided hearing thresholds worsened at reimplantation activation but recovered by five years and stayed stable through ten years.
Reimplantation did not damage long-term hearing detection.
Key findings
01Hearing thresholds were worse at activation after reimplantation than before the device failure.
02Thresholds recovered and were significantly better than pre-failure levels at five and ten years post-reimplantation.
03There was no significant difference in hearing thresholds between the five-year and ten-year follow-ups.
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What it does not show
The sample size was very small, with only 12 children. The study only examined hearing detection thresholds, not speech perception or language outcomes. The results apply only to hard device failure reimplantations with the same specific device model, not soft failures or different devices.
Declared interests
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The easy way to misread this
Do not assume that good long-term hearing detection guarantees good speech perception or language outcomes, as this study only measured pure tone thresholds.