Pub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08984-4
Anja Kurz, David Herrmann, Franz-Tassilo Müller-Graff, Johannes Voelker, Stephan Hackenberg, Kristen Rak
Objective: To evaluate objective and subjective hearing outcomes in experienced cochlear implant users with single sided deafness (SSD CI) who used fitting maps created via anatomy-based fitting (ABF) and clinically-based fitting (CBF).
Participants: Twelve SSD CI users with postlingual hearing loss.
Intervention: OTOPLAN (Version 3. (MED-EL) was used to determine intracochlear electrode contact positions using post-operative high-resolution flat panel volume computed tomography. From these positions, the corresponding center frequencies and bandwidths were derived for each channel. These were implemented in the clinical fitting software MAESTRO to yield an ABF map individualized to each user.
Main outcome measures: ABF and CBF maps were compared. Objective speech perception in quiet and in noise, binaural effects, and self-perceived sound quality were evaluated.
Results: Significantly higher speech perception in noise scores were observed with the ABF map compared to the CBF map (mean SRT50: -6.49 vs. -4.8 dB SNR for the S0NCI configuration and - 3.85 vs. -2.75 dB SNR for the S0N0 configuration). Summation and squelch effects were significantly increased with the ABF map (0.86 vs. 0.21 dB SNR for summation and 0.85 vs. -0.09 dB SNR for squelch). No improvement in speech perception in quiet or spatial release from masking were observed with the ABF map. A similar level of self-perceived sound quality was reported for each map. Upon the end of the study, all users opted to keep the ABF map. This preference was independent of the angular insertion depth of the electrode array.
Conclusions: Experienced SSD CI users preferred using the ABF map, which gave them significant improvements in binaural hearing and some aspects of speech perception.
目的:评估经验丰富的单侧耳聋(SSD CI)人工耳蜗用户的客观和主观听力结果,这些用户使用的是通过基于解剖的适配(ABF)和基于临床的适配(CBF)创建的适配图:12 名患有舌后听力损失的 SSD CI 用户:使用术后高分辨率平板容积计算机断层扫描确定耳蜗内电极接触位置。根据这些位置,得出每个通道的相应中心频率和带宽。这些都被应用到临床拟合软件 MAESTRO 中,以生成针对每个用户的个性化 ABF 地图:对 ABF 和 CBF 地图进行比较。主要结果测量:比较 ABF 图和 CBF 图,评估安静和噪声中的客观语音感知、双耳效应和自我感觉音质:与 CBF 地图相比,ABF 地图的噪声语音感知得分明显更高(平均 SRT50:S0NCI 配置为-6.49 vs. -4.8 dB SNR,S0N0 配置为-3.85 vs. -2.75 dB SNR)。使用 ABF 地图后,求和效应和静噪效应明显增加(求和信噪比为 0.86 对 0.21 分贝,静噪信噪比为 0.85 对 -0.09 分贝)。使用 ABF 地图后,安静环境中的语音感知和空间掩蔽释放均未得到改善。据报告,每种地图的自我感觉音质水平相似。研究结束时,所有用户都选择保留 ABF 地图。这种偏好与电极阵列的角度插入深度无关:结论:有经验的 SSD CI 用户更喜欢使用 ABF 地图,它能显著改善他们的双耳听力和某些方面的言语感知。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08963-9
Effi Katharina Lehmann, Katharina Heinze-Köhler, Cynthia Glaubitz, Tim Liebscher, Max Engler, Ulrich Hoppe
Purpose: 'Illness perceptions' refers to the thoughts and ideas a person has about an illness. According to Leventhal's Self-Regulatory Model (SRM), changing the threatening illness perceptions of cochlear implant (CI) recipients can be a further step in optimizing hearing outcomes with the CI. The aims of the present study were to assess users' illness perceptions and to determine whether perceptions change during six months of CI rehabilitation.
Methods: One hundred and thirty-eight participants completed the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief IPQ), assessing their illness perceptions on nine scales. Data were collected at a German CI center at first CI fitting and six-month follow-up. After first fitting, participants underwent intensive rehabilitation including auditory training, medical, audiological and psychological treatments.
Results: At both assessments, participants tended to view their hearing impairment as a severe threat. On the Brief IPQ, the 'consequences' assessment improved during CI rehabilitation, which can be explained by the CI-induced hearing improvement. However, 'understanding' and 'identity' assessments worsened. This could be because CI recipients only come to realize the full complexity of their hearing impairment during rehabilitation. The other scales and the total score remained unaffected.
Conclusions: Current practice in CI rehabilitation seems to be insufficient to improve threatening illness perceptions (except for perceived consequences). This may be because standard information often fails to reach the patients. The development and empirical validation of an intervention program to address individual illness perceptions in CI recipients could be helpful in this context. Further research will be needed to confirm the results.
目的:"疾病认知 "是指一个人对疾病的想法和观念。根据 Leventhal 的自我调节模型 (SRM),改变人工耳蜗 (CI) 受助者对疾病威胁的认知是优化 CI 听力效果的又一步骤。本研究的目的是评估用户对疾病的认知,并确定在六个月的人工耳蜗康复过程中,用户对疾病的认知是否会发生变化:138名参与者填写了疾病感知简明问卷(Brief IPQ),通过九个量表评估了他们对疾病的感知。数据收集于德国一家人工耳蜗中心,时间为首次安装人工耳蜗和六个月的随访。首次安装后,参与者接受了强化康复训练,包括听觉训练、医疗、听力和心理治疗:在两次评估中,参与者都倾向于将听力障碍视为严重威胁。在简要 IPQ 中,"后果 "评估在 CI 康复期间有所改善,这可以用 CI 引起的听力改善来解释。然而,"理解 "和 "认同 "评估却恶化了。这可能是因为 CI 使用者只有在康复过程中才能充分认识到听力障碍的复杂性。其他量表和总分未受影响:目前的 CI 康复实践似乎不足以改善对疾病威胁的感知(感知后果除外)。这可能是因为患者往往无法获得标准信息。在这种情况下,针对 CI 接受者的个人疾病感知制定干预计划并进行实证验证可能会有所帮助。还需要进一步的研究来确认结果。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08944-y
Isra Aljazeeri, Yassin Abdelsamad, Abdulrahman Alsanosi, Abdulrahman Hagr, Ana H. Kim, Angel Ramos-Macias, Angel Ramos de Miguel, Anja Kurz, Artur Lorens, Bruce Gantz, Craig A. Buchman, Dayse Távora-Vieira, Georg Sprinzl, Griet Mertens, James E. Saunders, Julie Kosaner, Laila M. Telmesani, Luis Lassaletta, Manohar Bance, Medhat Yousef, Meredith A. Holcomb, Oliver Adunka, Per Cayé-Thomasen, Piotr Henryk Skarzynski, Ranjith Rajeswaran, Robert J. Briggs, Seung-Ha Oh, Stefan K. Plontke, Stephen J. O’Leary, Sumit Agrawal, Tatsuya Yamasoba, Thomas Lenarz, Thomas Wesarg, Walter Kutz, Patrick Connolly, Ilona Anderson, Farid Alzhrani
Purpose
In cochlear implantation (CI) surgery, there are a wide variety of intraoperative tests available. However, no clear guide exists on which tests must be performed as the minimum intraoperative testing battery. Toward this end, we studied the usage patterns, recommendations, and attitudes of practitioners toward intraoperative testing.
Methods
This study is a multicentric international survey of tertiary referral CI centers. A survey was developed and administered to a group of CI practitioners (n = 34) including otologists, audiologists and biomedical engineers. Thirty six participants were invited to participate in this study based on a their scientific outputs to the literature on the intraoperative testing in CI field and based on their high load of CI surgeries. Thirty four, from 15 countries have accepted the invitation to participate. The participants were asked to indicate the usage trends, perceived value, influence on decision making and duration of each intraoperative test. They were also asked to indicate which tests they believe should be included in a minimum test battery for routine cases.
Results
Thirty-two (94%) experts provided responses. The most frequently recommended tests for a minimum battery were facial nerve monitoring, electrode impedance measurements, and measurements of electrically evoked compound action potentials (ECAPs). The perceived value and influence on surgical decision-making also varied, with high-resolution CT being rated the highest on both measures.
Conclusion
Facial nerve monitoring, electrode impedance measurements, and ECAP measurements are currently the core tests of the intraoperative test battery for CI surgery.
目的 在人工耳蜗植入(CI)手术中,有多种多样的术中检查可供选择。然而,对于哪些检查必须作为术中检查的最低标准,目前还没有明确的指南。为此,我们研究了术中检测的使用模式、建议以及从业人员对术中检测的态度。方法 本研究是一项针对三级转诊 CI 中心的多中心国际调查。调查对象包括耳科医师、听力学家和生物医学工程师等 CI 从业人员(34 人)。根据他们对 CI 领域术中测试文献的科学产出以及他们的 CI 手术高负荷,有 36 名参与者被邀请参与这项研究。来自 15 个国家的 34 位参与者接受了邀请。他们被要求指出每种术中检测的使用趋势、感知价值、对决策的影响和持续时间。结果有 32 位(94%)专家提供了回复。最常被推荐的最低测试项目是面神经监测、电极阻抗测量和电诱发复合动作电位(ECAP)测量。结论面神经监测、电极阻抗测量和ECAP测量是目前CI手术术中测试电池的核心测试。
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08962-w
Giannicola Iannella, Annalisa Pace, Antonio Greco, Armando De Virgilio, Enrica Croce, Antonino Maniaci, Jerome R Lechien, Federico Maria Gioacchini, Massimo Re, Giovanni Cammaroto, Tiziano Perrone, Salvatore Cocuzza, Giuseppe Magliulo
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08932-2
Changrui Su, Wenlong Tang, Jinsheng Qiao, Wenchao Liu, Bin Hu, Kangda Huang, Qingguo Liu, Long Wang
Purpose
The aim of this study is to describe the maximum exposure of the infraorbital region via the orbital floor using the transnasal prelacrimal recess approach (PLRA), and to provide an anatomical basis for treating lesions in the infraorbital region.
Methods
Ten freshly injected frozen heads were dissected using the PLRA. The orbital floor was removed along the border of the medial infraorbital quadrangle, and the periorbita was opened to expose the infraorbital region. The areas of the medial infraorbital quadrangles were measured and analyzed. The PLRA was applied separately on the left and right sides of each cadaver head, resulting in a total of 20 prelacrimal recess approaches.
Results
The PLRA enabled visualization of the optic nerve and the central retinal artery through the orbital floor. By integrating both medial and lateral approaches in relation to the inferior rectus muscle, all crucial anatomical structures within the infraorbital region could be clearly identified. The area of the medial infraorbital quadrangle was 420.65 ± 24.03 mm2.
Conclusion
The PLRA provides access through the orbital floor to the maximum boundary of the infraorbital region, including the lateral orbital wall at the outermost level, the superior rectus muscle at the topmost level, and the medial orbital wall at the innermost level.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08971-9
Betul Cicek Cinar, Merve Özses
Objectives
Inner ear malformations (IEMs) may result in differences in outcomes of cochlear implant user. These differences could be observed in both behavioral and objective tests. eCAP is the most common used objective test in cochlear implants and have different presence rate in cochlear implant users with and without IEMs. This study aims to evaluate eCAP results from CI user with and without IEMs through different recoding methods; amplitude growth function, spreads of excitation and refractory recovery.
Methods
There were 42 CI users (20 IEM&22 normal) above five-years old and with at least one year experience. Three different eCAP measurement was conducted at several intracochlear electrodes. Presence rate, threshold levels and amplitude were compared between groups.
Results
For Amplitude growth function measurement, when the percentage of detected eCAP thresholds was analyzed between groups, there was a significant difference only for basal electrode and no significant difference for apical and middle electrodes. Similarly, the presence rate of RecF-eCAP for both groups were in a downward trend from apical to basal. However, there was no significant difference in AGF-eCAP and RecF-eCAP amplitudes between groups for the cochlea’s apical, middle and basal region. Although the presence rate of SOE-eCAP was lower for IEM group, there was no significant difference in ECAP amplitudes for all maskers.
Conclusions
It could be inferred that even though the observable eCAP rate differed between these two groups when the observable eCAP was recorded, the IEM group produced eCAP with similar amplitudes to normal cochlea group.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08958-6
Andrea Ciofalo, Antonella Loperfido, Silvia Baroncelli, Simonetta Masieri, Gianluca Bellocchi, Riccardo Caramia, Francesca Cascone, Luca Filaferro, Federica Lo Re, Carlo Cavaliere
Purpose
Biologics represent a new therapeutic strategy for severe and recurrent chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). Usually, their actual therapeutic effectiveness is assessed by reduction in nasal polyps and/or improvement in nasal symptoms and quality of life. However, these measures do not consider nasal immunophlogosis, which can be evaluated through nasal cytology. The purpose of this study was to assess not only the clinical impact but also the cellular changes in the nasal inflammatory infiltrate observed through nasal cytology of CRSwNP patients treated with Dupilumab for 24 months.
Methods
Fifty-five CRSwNP patients treated with Dupilumab were collected. Patients were evaluated before starting treatment and at one, three, six, nine months, one year, one and a half years, and two years after the first drug administration. During follow–up visits patients underwent endoscopic evaluation, nasal symptoms and quality of life assessment, complete blood count and nasal cytology.
Results
During follow-up, significant improvement was found in Nasal Polyps Score (NPS), nasal patency, olfaction, Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22) score, and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Regarding nasal cytology, a reduction in eosinophils and mast cells in the cellular infiltrate was observed over the two-year follow-up period compared to baseline.
Conclusion
Dupilumab has demonstrated broad efficacy in the management of CRSwNP from both clinical and cytological findings. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings and evaluate the biologics’ impact on nasal mucosal inflammatory cells by nasal cytology with the aim of better identifying each patient’s endotype and predicting the response to biologics.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08978-2
Neşet Akay, Berkan Altay, Burak Mustafa Taş, İrem Altuntop
Purpose
It is aimed to evaluate the effect of maxillary sinus elevation with lateral antrostomy approach on mucociliary functions using the saccharin test.
Methods
The study was planned prospectively. 29 patients who underwent maxillary sinus elevation were included in the study. The age and gender information of the patients were noted. Saccharin test was performed in the nasal cavity on the operated side. Mucociliary functions were evaluated with the results of the saccharin test performed before the operation and the saccharin test results at the 1st week, 1st month, and 3rd month postoperatively. Comparisons were made with these values.
Results
The mean age of the patients was 42.10 ± 4.99 years. Of the patients, 14 (48.3%) were female and 15 (51.7%) were male. Preoperative saccharine test results were found to be significantly lower than the postoperative values. As the postoperative recovery period increased, a significant decrease was observed in the saccharin test results. However, preoperative values were within normal limits, while postoperative values were above the normal range.
Conclusions
In our study, it was observed that mucociliary functions improved as the postoperative period increased in patients who underwent maxillary sinus elevation, but were still above normal limits.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08969-3
Shireen A. Samargandy, Christian G. Fritz, David Ahmadian, Vidur Bhalla, John M. Lee, Christopher H. Le
Background
This report analyzes traumatic anterior skull base CSF leaks following nasopharyngeal swab testing for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the largest case series to date, combined with a systematic literature review.
Methods
Retrospective multi-institutional case-series of traumatic anterior skull base CSF leak with clear antecedent history of COVID-19 swab was completed. A comprehensive search of databases was performed for the systematic literature review.
Results
Thirty-four patients with traumatic CSF leak after COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab testing were identified. Women were more than twice as likely to experience a CSF leak, as compared to men. The majority of patients (58.8%) had no reported predisposing factor in their clinical history. Common defect sites included the cribriform plate (52.9%), sphenoid sinus (29.4%), and ethmoid roof (17.6%). Four patients (11.8%) presented with meningitis. The median time between the traumatic COVID swab and the detection of CSF leak was 4 weeks (IQR 1–9). Patients with meningitis had a median leak duration of 12 weeks (IQR 8–18). The average leak duration was significantly longer in patients with meningitis compared to without meningitis (p = 0.029), with a moderate effect size (r = − 0.68). Most cases (92.9%) managed with endoscopic endonasal surgical repair were successful.
Conclusions
This report clarifies the presentation, risk factors, and management of CSF leaks attributable to diagnostic nasopharynx swabbing procedures in the COVID-19 era. Timely surgical repair is the recommended management option for such leaks.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-15DOI: 10.1007/s00405-024-08968-4
Nidhin Das K, Manjul Muraleedharan, Amit Keshri, Kanika Arora, Neha Singh, Arulalan Mathialagan, Govind Bhuskute, Nazrin Hameed, Kalyan Chidambaram, Mohd. Aqib, Mohit Sinha, Awadesh Kumar Jaiswal, Ravi Sankar Manogaran
Background
Vagal schwannomas are well-documented, but cervical sympathetic chain schwannomas (CSCS) are rare, with most knowledge from case reports. This study aims to identify radiological predictors of misdiagnosis and factors guiding surgical approaches based on tumor size and extent.
Methods
An ambispective analysis was conducted on 21 cases of CSCS, examining preoperative data, intraoperative findings and the questionnaire to identify the potential predictors. Tumors were classified into three types based on their relationship with the carotid sheath, and this classification was correlated with vessel ligation and postoperative neural outcomes.
Results
An excellent agreement was found between radiologist on new classification system(Kappa:0.89). Tumor classification revealed a diverse distribution, with 6 cases identified as Type 1, 6 as Type 2, 5 as Type 3, and 4 as Type 3S. The necessity of external carotid artery (ECA) ligation correlated with the tumor type. Type 3 tumors required ECA ligation in 50% of cases, while Type 1 and Type 2 tumors predominantly involved vascular preservation. Postoperative complications included vagal palsy in 28.5% of cases and first bite syndrome in 71.4%.
Conclusion
Accurate preoperative planning and a novel staging system can enhance surgical outcomes and reduce postoperative complications as validated by our study.
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