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Clinical Performance Assessment of a New Active Osseointegrated Implant System in Mixed Hearing Loss: Results From a
Ignacio Pla-Gil1, María Aragonés Redó, Tomàs Pérez-Carbonell
1Clinic University Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Objective:
Evaluation of a new active osseointegrated bone-conduction hearing implant in moderate to severe mixed-hearing loss.
Study Design:
Prospective observational study of a series of cases.
Setting:
Tertial referral center.
Patients:
Twenty patients with moderate mixed-hearing loss were evaluated (10 Cochlear Osia group and 10 Baha 5 Power Connect -control group).
Intervention:
Rehabilitative.
Main Outcome Measures:
Hearing performance in quiet and in noise and quality-of-life were evaluated.
Results:
Improvements in audibility, speech-understanding, speech-recognition, and quality-of-sound in noise and quiet were found for the Osia System compared with preoperative unaided hearing and performance was similar to that obtained with Baha 5 Power Connect.
Conclusions:
The new active transcutaneous bone conduction system provided a tonal improvement in free-field at middle and high frequencies. The performance in speech recognition in quiet and in noise was similar to control group outcomes.
