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9553973

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
The authors illustrate their personal experience relating to 32 patients, aged between 12 and 74 years, undergoing cochlear implant, in whom vestibular reflexes were evaluated before and after surgery. This series did not include cases of areflexia, but only 1 case of reduced vestibular reflexia consequently to surgery. In this case, owing to the probable intervention of central compensation processes, labyrinthine hyporeflexia never became clinically significant. These personal results enable the authors to affirm that preoperative vestibular reflexes do not offer elements able to influence the choice of the ear in which to perform the cochlear implant. In the series of patients reported by the authors, a cochleostomy by removal of the floor of the round window niche, following the suggestions of O'Leary et al., always headed the electrode implant. This contrivance may reduce or eliminate the negative effects on vestibular receptors indirectly caused by the consequent and inevitable alteration of perilymph pressure produced by the implant.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-1569
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
60
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
85-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Vestibular function and cochlear implant.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medico-Surgical Disciplines, Turin University, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article