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Hearing restoration for adults with vestibular schwannoma in the only-hearing ear: ipsilateral, contralateral or bilateral cochlear implantation?

Presenting Author: Zhihua Zhang

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2016

Zhihua Zhang ,
Zirong Huo ,
Qi Huang ,
Zhaoyan Wang ,
Jun Yang  and
Hao Wu
Zhihua Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
Zirong Huo
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
Qi Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
Zhaoyan Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
Jun Yang
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
Hao Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine on Ear and Nose diseases, Ear Institute Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200092, China
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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 130 , Supplement S3: Abstracts for the 10th International Conference on Cholesteatoma , May 2016 , pp. S253 - S254
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Learning Objectives:

Objective: To explore auditory outcome of cochlear implantation (CI) performed in patients diagnosed with vestibular schwannoma (VS) in the only-hearing ear.

Patients and methods: A retrospective analysis of three cases is carried out. All study participants have a long history of hearing loss on the one side and a newly-presented symptom of a gradual hearing loss due to VS on the other side, who then received ipsilateral, contralateral or bilateral CI. Imaging examination and audiological tests were carried out before operation. Hearing outcomes were measured by the pure tone audiogram (PTA) and the open set speech discrimination score (SDS). Mean follow-up time was 18 months.

Results: During follow-up period, none of the three patients had a remarkable improvement in their speech recognition, whether got unilateral or bilateral CI. However, PTA showed positive results in all of the three cases, which conferred an awareness of environmental sounds and was an adjuvant to lip reading. The patient with bilateral CI showed significantly better performance on the open set speech perception compared to the other two patients with unilateral CI, especially in noise.

Conclusions: CI meets the goals of lower PTA, improved lip reading and perception of environmental sounds. However, SDS is not significantly improved after CI. Bilateral CI is more beneficial than unilateral CI on either side.