Prospective Multicentric Follow-up Study of Cochlear Implantation in Adults With Single-Sided Deafness: Tinnitus and Audiological Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigated the audiological and tinnitus outcomes of cochlear implantation (CI) in adults with single-sided deafness (SSD) and tinnitus.

Study design

Multicentered prospective, non-randomized intervention study.

Setting

Six French CI centers.

Patients

Twenty-six patients with SSD and incapacitating tinnitus (Tinnitus Handicap Inventory [THI] >58) underwent cochlear implantation.

Interventions

First, CIs delivered only masking white noise stimulation for 1 month and then standard CI stimulation.

Main outcome measures

Before and after CI surgery, patients completed the THI, Tinnitus Reaction Questionnaire (TRQ), Subjective Tinnitus Severity Scale (STSS), and two visual analogue scales quantifying tinnitus loudness and annoyanc

SUBMITTER: Poncet-Wallet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7208276 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature