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de Brito R, Bittencourt AG, Goffi-Gomez MV, et al. Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2013;17(1):57-61doi: 10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010.
de Brito, R., Bittencourt, A. G., Goffi-Gomez, M. V., Magalhães, A. T., Samuel, P., Tsuji, R. K., Bento, R. F., & Holmberg, K. J. (2013). Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples. International archives of otorhinolaryngology, 17(1), 57-61. https://doi.org/10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010
de Brito, Rubens, et al. "Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples." International archives of otorhinolaryngology vol. 17,1 (2013): 57-61. doi: https://doi.org/10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010
de Brito R, Bittencourt AG, Goffi-Gomez MV, Magalhães AT, Samuel P, Tsuji RK, Bento RF, Holmberg KJ. Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples. Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 Jan;17(1):57-61. doi: 10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010. PMID: 25991995; PMCID: PMC4423278.
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Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2013 Jan;17(1):57-61. doi: 10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010.

Cochlear implants and bacterial meningitis: A speech recognition study in paired samples.

International archives of otorhinolaryngology

Rubens de Brito, Aline Gomes Bittencourt, Maria Valéria Goffi-Gomez, Ana Tereza Magalhães, Paola Samuel, Robinson Koji Tsuji, Ricardo Ferreira Bento, Holmberg

Affiliations

  1. Otolaryngologist, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  2. Otolaryngologist, PhD student. Neurotology Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  3. Audiologist, PhD in Human Communication Disorders (Speech Pathology). Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  4. PhD student. Cochlear Implant Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  5. Cochlear Implant Fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  6. Otolaryngologist, PhD. Associate Doctor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  7. Otolaryngologist, PhD. Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.

PMID: 25991995 PMCID: PMC4423278 DOI: 10.7162/S1809-97772013000100010

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:  Cochlear implants may guarantee sound perception and the ability to detect speech at a close-to-normal hearing intensity; however, differences have been observed among implantees in terms of performance on discrimination tests and speech recognition.

OBJECTIVE:  To identify whether patients with post-meningitis deafness perform similarly to patients with hearing loss due to other causes.

METHOD:  A retrospective clinical study involving post-lingual patients who had been using Nucleus-22 or Nucleus-24 cochlear implants for at least 1 year. These patients were matched with respect to age (± 2 years), time since the onset of deafness (± 1 year), and the duration of implant use with implant users who had hearing loss due to other causes. Speech perception was assessed using the Portuguese version of the Latin-American Protocol for the Evaluation of Cochlear Implants.

RESULTS: The sample consisted of 52 individuals (26 in each of the 2 groups). The post-meningitic group had a median of 18.5 active electrodes. The group with hearing loss due to other causes had a median of 21, but no significant statistical difference was observed (p = 0.07). The results of closed- and open-set speech recognition tests showed great variability in speech recognition between the studied groups. These differences were more pronounced for the most difficult listening tasks, such as the medial consonant task (in the vowel-consonant-vowel format).

CONCLUSION:  Cochlear implant recipients with hearing loss due to bacterial meningitis, who had been using the device for 1 year performed more poorly on closed- and open-set speech recognition tests than did implant recipients with hearing loss due to other causes.

Keywords: Cochlear implants; Meningitis; Speech perception

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