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Emilia Latorre-monteagudo
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Initial experience with the Sophono Alpha 1 osseointegrated implant.
2013
In the last several years, bone anchored hearing aids have proven to be useful in treating conductive and mixed unilateral or bilateral hearing loss, as well as for sensorineural unilateral hearing loss. The Sophono Alpha 1 model has the advantage of not requiring an abutment, with it being coupled by magnetism instead. We report the cases of 3 infants with congenital malformations of external and middle ear. Audiometry showed conductive hearing loss. All 3 patients were implanted with Alpha 1 model (Sophono). Patients evolved satisfactorily. After 30 days we applied the processor and the control audiometry showed a marked improvement of hearing thresholds, although without a complete closu…
Primeras experiencias con el dispositivo osteointegrado Ponto™ SuperPower
2019
Resumen Los dispositivos auditivos osteointegrados (DAO) Power y SuperPower presentan indicaciones para umbrales en via osea de 55 y 65 dB, respectivamente. Realizamos un estudio observacional prospectivo de una serie de 6 casos con hipoacusia mixta en los que se realizo implantacion del DAO Ponto™ SuperPower. Se realizaron previo a la implantacion y 6 meses tras la adaptacion valoraciones tonales y verbales sin y con ruido de fondo (HINTS). Todos los participantes mostraron mejoria en los resultados tonales y verbales, variando segun el grado de hipoacusia contralateral. Cabe destacar los resultados verbales con ruido de fondo donde la mayoria de los pacientes obtuvieron una relacion senal…
Cortical neuroplasticity in children after early cochlear implantation
2009
Hearing is crucial to learn and use language. Loss of hearing in children affects the development of speech, language and cognitive abilities, and severely impairs social capabilities. Thus, efforts to restore auditory perception are determinative and research should be focused on factors likely to bring about the best prognosis. Numerous experimental observations demonstrate that there is a sensitive or critical period for cochlear implantation. Implantations performed in prelingually deaf children in this period are associated with better results in terms of speech recognition and language acquisition. This is the time period in which brain plasticity shows its highest level of developmen…
First Experiences With the Ponto⢢ SuperPower Osseointegrated Device
2018
Osseointegrated hearing devices Power and SuperPower present indications for bone thresholds of 55 and 65 dB respectively. We conducted a prospective observational study of a series of six cases with mixed hearing loss for whom implantation of the DAO Ponto™ Super-Power was performed. Tonal and verbal evaluations without and with background noise (HINTS) were performed prior to implantation and six months after adaptation. All the participants showed improvement in tonal and verbal results, varying according to the degree of contralateral hearing loss. The verbal results with background noise were noteworthy, where most of the patients obtained a signal-to-noise ratio between 2 and 4 dB. Th…
Experiencia inicial con el implante osteointegrado Alpha 1 de Sophono
2014
En los ultimos anos los implantes osteointegrados han probado su utilidad en el tratamiento de la hipoacusia de transmision mixta, uni o bilateral, y la neurosensorial unilateral. El implante Alpha 1 de Sophono ofrece una ventaja sustancial, la falta de acoplador externo y su union al receptor por medio de magnetismo. Presentamos el caso de 3 ninos que padecen malformaciones de oido externo y medio de origen congenito. Los estudios audiometricos revelan hipoacusias de transmision de caracter moderado. En los 3 pacientes se propuso la colocacion del implante Alpha 1 de Sophono. Los pacientes evolucionaron de forma satisfactoria. A los 30 dias se les aplico el procesador, y en las audiometria…