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Some results after CI surgery patients with tinnitus in mongolia
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Jargalkhuu Erdenechuluun
- Emjj HNO-Uni-klinik, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolei
| Published: | April 13, 2017 |
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Introduction: Cochlear implant surgery started to be operated in Mongolia since 2009 (Cochlear Co.Ltd). The company performed the CI surgery to 5 post lingual deaf patient with tinnitus in 2009-2016. All 5 patients were implanted with electrode including 2 cases CI 422, 1 case pc CI 512 and 2 cases Nucleus CI 24 RE.
Average age of the 3 patients were 27-43 years. 2 patients were 14-15 years old.
First recipient who was operated in 2009 could distinguish most sounds after 6 months of the operation and they could cooperate with family and could sing 1-2 songs 3 years later.
4 months later after the operation most patients began to hear sounds and after 6 months later they knew their names and one years later they could say some monosyllabic Mongolian few words. 4 patients tinnitus were disappeared in implanted side. One patient ‘s tinnitus wasn’t disappear.
Conclusion: Implanting Cochlear implant to the profound, deaf tinnitus patients are able to realistically rehabilitate hearing loss and tinnitus disappear.
Keywords: deaf , profound hearing loss, cochlear implant, tinnitus, Nucleus 5
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