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Complications in cochlear implant surgery
For the last 6 years, cochlear implantation has become a standard practice in our department. The number of patients rose from 5 to 21/ year. Using multiple types of cochlear implants and indicating the surgery also to malformed inner ears led to the encounter of some complications. Objective: to pr...
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Carol Davila University Press
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351535 |
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author | Gheorghe, DC Zamfir-Chiru-Anton, A |
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description | For the last 6 years, cochlear implantation has become a standard practice in our department. The number of patients rose from 5 to 21/ year. Using multiple types of cochlear implants and indicating the surgery also to malformed inner ears led to the encounter of some complications. Objective: to present the surgical complications from our department. Material: all the patients admitted and operated in our clinic have been reviewed. Results: 9 complications (8,86%) have occurred: the impossibility of establishing a reliable cochleostomy (due to ossification), air in the cochlea through lack of sealing of the cochleostomy (exteriorization of the electrode array), cochlear implant postoperative migration from its bed, weak hearing discrimination due to “double electrodes” in the scala tympani, gusher. Conclusions: cochlear implanting needs to respect the technical steps of the surgery and the best technical/ tactical solution has to be found to whatever complications arise in complex or malformed cases! |
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spelling | pubmed-45569142015-09-08 Complications in cochlear implant surgery Gheorghe, DC Zamfir-Chiru-Anton, A J Med Life General Articles For the last 6 years, cochlear implantation has become a standard practice in our department. The number of patients rose from 5 to 21/ year. Using multiple types of cochlear implants and indicating the surgery also to malformed inner ears led to the encounter of some complications. Objective: to present the surgical complications from our department. Material: all the patients admitted and operated in our clinic have been reviewed. Results: 9 complications (8,86%) have occurred: the impossibility of establishing a reliable cochleostomy (due to ossification), air in the cochlea through lack of sealing of the cochleostomy (exteriorization of the electrode array), cochlear implant postoperative migration from its bed, weak hearing discrimination due to “double electrodes” in the scala tympani, gusher. Conclusions: cochlear implanting needs to respect the technical steps of the surgery and the best technical/ tactical solution has to be found to whatever complications arise in complex or malformed cases! Carol Davila University Press 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4556914/ /pubmed/26351535 Text en ©Carol Davila University Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | General Articles Gheorghe, DC Zamfir-Chiru-Anton, A Complications in cochlear implant surgery |
title | Complications in cochlear implant surgery
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title_full | Complications in cochlear implant surgery
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title_fullStr | Complications in cochlear implant surgery
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title_full_unstemmed | Complications in cochlear implant surgery
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title_short | Complications in cochlear implant surgery
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title_sort | complications in cochlear implant surgery |
topic | General Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556914/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351535 |
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