Safety profiles of bone-conduction hearing implants revisited: A meta-analytic comparison adjusted for follow-up time.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To estimate incidence rates of adverse events associated with bone-conduction hearing implants from primary literature and to compare rates among different technological designs.

Methods

A systematic literature review and meta-regression was conducted to estimate incidence rates of minor and major complications and their consequences (i.e., revision surgery, explantation, re-implantation and becoming a non-user) while testing for effects of device design, age group, mean follow-up time and study type. These four designs of bone-conduction systems were included: 1) active transcutaneous with electromagnetic transducer (aBCIem), 2) active transcutaneous with piezoelectric transducer (aBCIpz), 3) passive transcutaneous (tBAHA), and 4) passive percutaneous (pBAHA).

Re

SUBMITTER: Caversaccio M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12605608 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature