[Indications for the cochlear implant in partial deafness of the adult].
The last (may 1995) NHI Consensus Development Conference on cochlear implant recommends to extend the use of cochlear implant for adult patient suffering from bilateral acquired severe hearing impairment. Its indications are a severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss bilaterally presenting an open-set sentence recognition scores less than or equal to 30 percent under best aided conditions. We report the results of our 4 first implantees responding to these criteria, and discuss the mechanisms of the speech intelligibility improvement which has been obtained.
Service ORL, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
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D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged
Les indications de l'implant cochléaire dans les surdités incomplètes de l'adulte.