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Cochlear implantation in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta
Sven-Olrik Streubel1, L R Lustig
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Objective:
Hearing loss has been shown to occur in 42% to 58% of patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), with deafness arising in 25% to 60% of the patients. Implantation in patients with OI is relatively rare, with only 4 prior single case reports published in the English-language literature. The goal of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and functional outcome of cochlear implantation in 2 patients with OI tarda type I with profound sensorineural hearing loss.
Study Design:
Case series.
Setting:
The implantations were performed in a tertiary academic referral center (Johns Hopkins University).
Results:
Though promontory vascularity was encountered, full insertion of a normal cochlear implant array could be achieved in both cases. One-year postimplant scores demonstrated 20 to 40 dB hearing thresholds, Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant Test word scores of 54% and 70%, Consonant-Nucleus-Consonant Test phoneme scores of 75% and 83%, Hearing in Noise Test scores of 76% and 99%, and Central Institute of the Deaf Sentence Score sentence scores of 99% and 100%, for patients 1 and 2, respectively.
Conclusions:
Cochlear implantation in patients with OI is not only technically possible but the results are similar to implant outcomes for patients with sensorineural hearing loss from a variety of other causes.
Ebm Rating:
C.