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Vote Pick which day means the most to you. We had to establish early baselines ourselves to show that implants made a difference. Every time we got an answer, it brought up 10 new questions. Gantz, MD, now head of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, met and trained with William House.
In early , Dr. Gantz performed the first cochlear implant at his institution, and between and , he interacted with other key CI pioneers, including Dr. Chouard in Paris and Graeme Clark in Australia. The initial age for children was 2 years, then 18 months in and 12 months in Shannon noted that the improvements in CI performance in the s were due to advances in understanding brain processing.
The brain, trained over millions of words over a lifetime, is far better at picking out the most important parts of the signal. Current thrusts of research include implantation in very young infants, timing of bilateral implantation, preservation of residual hearing structures and stem cell research.
Currently, the FDA allows implantation in infants at 1 year, but what we now know about brain plasticity in developing infants has led some researchers to conclude that earlier implantation results in better outcomes for children.
The six-center. Between and , investigators enrolled children with profound sensorineural hearing loss who underwent CI implantation, and 97 children with normal hearing. Extensive baseline assessments and thorough follow-up as the children age are yielding not only observations about language acquisition but also valuable insight into the effects of environmental factors on CI outcomes JAMA. Horlbeck, who trained with Dr. Niparko and has been doing implants since , noted that the comprehensive rehabilitation team at Nemours contributes to the overall success of the program.
Gantz maintains that there need not be a sense of urgency to implant children prior to the age of eight months, the age when a behavioral audiogram can be performed. Based on 25 years of longitudinal follow-up on children receiving CIs at his institution, he has found that at age 7 years, children who had received implants between the ages of 2 and 4 years did not show significantly different reading, language and speech perception from those who received the implants between 11 months and 2 years of age.
Adrien A. Eshraghi, MD, associate professor and chief at Jackson Memorial Otology and Neurotology Clinics and director of the University of Miami Hearing Research Laboratory, department of otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and colleagues established that the implantation procedure itself can induce apoptosis, thus impeding reestablishment of residual hearing in damaged cochlear structures.
Although manufacturers have worked to make coils that are less traumatic, Dr. Eshraghi pointed out that insertion of the CI electrode into the cochlea stimulates the production of inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress, resulting in irreversible damage. His laboratory, in collaboration with microbiologist Thomas R. Otol Neurotol. Djourno A, Eyries C. House LR.
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