Benefits of bone conduction hearing aid in children with unilateral aural atresia.
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital
; 43(3): 221-226, 2023 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
Objective:
To assess the hearing benefit with a unilateral bone conduction hearing aid in a cohort of children with unilateral aural atresia.Methods:
Cross-sectional case series pilot study involving 7 children (median age 10 years, range 6-11). All patients underwent pure-tone, speech, aided sound field and aided speech audiometry and Simplified Italian Matrix Test (SIMT) with and without bone conduction hearing aid (Baha 5® CochlearTM). Cognitive abilities were assessed in 5 patients.Results:
The mean air conduction pure-tone average (PTA) of the atretic ear was 63.2 ± 6.9 dB, while the bone conduction PTA was 12.6 ± 4.7 dB. Speech discrimination score of the atretic ear was 88.6 ± 3.8 dB, while with the hearing aid it was 52.8 ± 1.9 dB. In the contralateral ear, there was no significant air-bone gap, and PTAs for air and bone conduction thresholds were within normal range (PTA ≤ 25 dB). The mean aided air conduction hearing threshold was 26.2 ± 7.97. Mean speech recognition threshold without the hearing aid was -5.1 ± 1.9 dB, and -6.0 ± 1.7 dB with the hearing aid tested with the SIMT. The mean score of the cognitive test was 46.8 ± 42.8.Conclusions:
These preliminary findings should encourage clinicians in proposing a unilateral bone conduction hearing aid in children with unilateral atresia.Palabras clave
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Percepción del Habla
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Audífonos
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Child
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Humans
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Revista:
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital
Año:
2023
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Article
País de afiliación:
Italia