title: Vibrant soundbridge middle ear implant in otosclerosis: technique - indication.
abstract: With our growing experience with the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) middle ear implant, the question emerged of its indication in mixed hearing loss due to advanced otosclerosis. We describe the VSB implantation technique in primary otosclerosis performed together with a stapedotomy piston procedure. Hearing results under headphone and free-field conditions show that the stapedotomy piston procedure closes the air-bone gap as expected and that the VSB provides comparable gain to that usually recorded for pure sensorineural hearing loss. The gains of the two procedures add up. These results open the field of mixed hearing loss to the VSB middle ear implant.
authors.affiliation: J. Causse Clinic, Béziers, France.
authors.forename: Thibaud
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dumon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000601:surgery*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006310:Hearing Aids; D046089:Hearing Loss, Mixed Conductive-Sensorineural / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009998:Ossicular Prosthesis; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D019919:Prosthesis Implantation; D013201:Stapes Surgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers