Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004281
Margaret T Dillon, Emily Buss, Nicholas J Thompson, Margaret E Richter, Amanda G Davis, Andrea B Overton, Meredith A Rooth, Michael W Canfarotta, A Morgan Selleck, Matthew M Dedmon, Kevin D Brown
{"title":"Speech Recognition and Subjective Hearing Abilities for Electric-Acoustic Stimulation Users With Unilateral Hearing Loss.","authors":"Margaret T Dillon, Emily Buss, Nicholas J Thompson, Margaret E Richter, Amanda G Davis, Andrea B Overton, Meredith A Rooth, Michael W Canfarotta, A Morgan Selleck, Matthew M Dedmon, Kevin D Brown","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004281","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Some cochlear implant (CI) recipients with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) have functional acoustic hearing in the implanted ear, warranting the fitting of an ipsilateral electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) device. The present study assessed speech recognition and subjective hearing abilities over time for EAS users with UHL.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Prospective, repeated-measures.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Tertiary referral center.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Adult CI recipients with normal-to-moderate low-frequency acoustic thresholds in the implanted ear and a contralateral pure-tone average (0.5, 1, and 2 kHz) ≤25 dB HL.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Participants were evaluated preoperatively and at 1, 3, and 6 months post-activation. Speech recognition for the affected ear was evaluated with CNC words in quiet. Masked speech recognition in the bilateral condition was evaluated with AzBio sentences in a 10-talker masker (0 dB SNR) for three spatial configurations: target from the front and masker either colocated with the target or presented 90 degrees toward the affected or contralateral ear. Responses to the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale subscales were used to assess subjective hearing abilities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants experienced significant improvements in CNC scores ( F(3,13) = 14.90, p < 0.001), and masked speech recognition in the colocated ( F(3,11) = 3.79, p = 0.043) and masker toward the contralateral ear ( F(3,11) = 4.75, p = 0.023) configurations. They also reported significantly better abilities on the Speech Hearing ( F(3,13) = 5.19, p = 0.014) and Spatial Hearing ( F(3,13) = 10.22, p = 0.001) subscales.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adults with UHL and functional acoustic hearing in the implanted ear experience significant improvements in speech recognition and subjective hearing abilities within the initial months of EAS use as compared with preoperative performance and perceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"1006-1011"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142009153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004317
Soo Jeong Choi, Soo Jin Lee, Dabin Lee, Gi Jung Im, Hak Hyun Jung, Sun-Uk Lee, Euyhyun Park
{"title":"Protective Effect of Memantine on Cisplatin-Induced Ototoxicity: An In Vitro Study.","authors":"Soo Jeong Choi, Soo Jin Lee, Dabin Lee, Gi Jung Im, Hak Hyun Jung, Sun-Uk Lee, Euyhyun Park","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004317","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004317","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Hypothesis: </strong>Memantine, an N -methyl- d -aspartate receptor antagonist, is widely used to treat Alzheimer's disease and has been found to have potential neuroprotective effects. In this study, we evaluated the protective effects of memantine against cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>Cisplatin is a widely used anticancer drug for various cancers; however, its use is limited by its side effects, including ototoxicity. Several drugs have been developed to reduce cisplatin toxicity. In this study, we treated cisplatin-damaged cochlear hair cells with memantine and evaluated its protective effects.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>House Ear Institute Organ of Corti 1 (HEI-OC1) cells and cochlear explants were treated with cisplatin or memantine. Cell viability, apoptotic patterns, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, Bcl-2/caspase-3 activity, and cell numbers were measured to evaluate the anti-apoptotic and antioxidative effects of memantine.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>Memantine treatment significantly improved cell viability and reduced cisplatin-induced apoptosis in auditory cells. Bcl-2/caspase-3 activity was also significantly increased, suggesting anti-apoptotic effects against cisplatin-induced ototoxicity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results suggest that memantine protects against cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in vitro, providing a potential new strategy for preventing hearing loss in patients undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"998-1005"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142056234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004290
Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Guglielmo Gozzi, Giulia Molinari, Alice Barbazza
{"title":"Endoscopic Transcanal Exenteration of the Horizontal Semicircular Canal for Intractable Menière's Disease.","authors":"Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Guglielmo Gozzi, Giulia Molinari, Alice Barbazza","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004290","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"e668-e669"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142081215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004301
Anja Bernaerts, Frederik Van den Kerkhof, Cathérine Blaivie, Floris Wuyts, Joost van Dinther, Andrzej Zarowski, Filip Deckers, Bert De Foer
{"title":"MR Imaging of Refluxed Protein-Rich Fluid into the Endolymphatic Spaces during an Acute Attack in an Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Patient.","authors":"Anja Bernaerts, Frederik Van den Kerkhof, Cathérine Blaivie, Floris Wuyts, Joost van Dinther, Andrzej Zarowski, Filip Deckers, Bert De Foer","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004301","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"e664-e666"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142081216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
João Viana Pinto,Ana Isabel Almeida,António Andrade,Fernando Vales,Carla Pinto Moura,Pedro Marques
{"title":"Comparison Between the Veillon and the Symons-Fanning CT Classification Systems for Otosclerosis.","authors":"João Viana Pinto,Ana Isabel Almeida,António Andrade,Fernando Vales,Carla Pinto Moura,Pedro Marques","doi":"10.1097/mao.0000000000004311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/mao.0000000000004311","url":null,"abstract":"OBJECTIVETo analyze the correlation between outcomes of stapes surgery and preoperative and postoperative audiometric results with different radiological staging classifications such as the Veillon classification (VC) and the Symons-Fanning classification (SFC).STUDY DESIGNRetrospective observational study.SETTINGOne tertiary hospital center.PATIENTSAdult patients submitted to stapes surgery due to otosclerosis from January 2017 to December 2022.INTERVENTIONEvaluation of different radiological classifications such as the VC and SFC.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESPreoperative and postoperative pure-tone audiometric data, outcomes of stapes surgery success (closure of the ABG, rates of AC threshold less than or equal to 30 dB), and postoperative sensorineural hearing loss.RESULTSA total of 87 patients and 97 operated ears were included. The SFC was associated with preoperative BC (p = 0.041) and AC (p = 0.018) and postoperative BC (p = 0.026) with an increase in thresholds with higher radiological stages. The VC was associated with postoperative AC (p = 0.045) with an increase in AC thresholds with increasing radiological stages. Lastly, both the VC (p = 0.032) and the SFC (p = 0.023) were associated with a decrease in rates of postoperative AC thresholds ≤30 dB with higher radiological stages.CONCLUSIONSThe SFC seems to be more useful to predict preoperative AC and BC and postoperative BC. On the contrary, the VC was more useful to predict postoperative AC. Both scales were similarly associated with the rate of AC thresholds ≤30 dB.","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":"194 1","pages":"e618-e623"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142248481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multicenter, Single-Arm, Objective Performance Criteria-Controlled Clinical Study of the Safety and Efficacy of the Double-Lumen Eustachian Tube Balloon Catheter.","authors":"Yu Si, Fan Shu, Wei Liu, Yusong Jiang, Yaodong Xu, Yongkang Ou, Haidi Yang, Hao Xiong, Maojin Liang, Cuiping Deng, Zhiyin Lu, Yan Luo, Jun Shen, Hongzheng Zhang, Zhigang Zhang, Suijun Chen","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004312","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004312","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To prospectively evaluate the technical efficacy and safety of the double-lumen eustachian tube (ET) balloon catheter in patients with ET dysfunction.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients who were diagnosed with ET dysfunction and needed balloon eustachian tuboplasty (BET) were prospectively enrolled. A double-lumen ET balloon catheter was used to dilate the ET and inject medicine. Efficacy results were assessed by the injection channel patency (ICP) rate, the injection reached the expected site (IRES) rate, and the improvement in eustachian tube function was evaluated by the seven-item Eustachian Tube Dysfunction Questionnaire (ETDQ-7) score. Safety results were assessed in terms of adverse events and device defects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>BET was successfully attempted in 87 patients from April 2022 to August 2022 at two academic medical centers in China (01, 02). The ICP rate was 100%, and the IRES rate was 88.51%. The overall ETDQ-7 score was significantly reduced ( p < 0.001) postsurgically at both centers. There were no major complications or device defects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The double-lumen ET balloon catheter is technically effective and safe for the treatment of ET dysfunction.</p>","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"985-992"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142110572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-21DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004308
Zachary D Urdang, Amiti Jain, Marwin Li, Thomas L Haupt, Thomas O Wilcox, Rebecca C Chiffer, Richard K Gurgel
{"title":"Conductive Hearing Loss Associates With Dementia, and Middle Ear Reconstruction Mitigates This Association: A Multinational Database Study.","authors":"Zachary D Urdang, Amiti Jain, Marwin Li, Thomas L Haupt, Thomas O Wilcox, Rebecca C Chiffer, Richard K Gurgel","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004308","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004308","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To test the hypothesis that conductive hearing loss (CHL) is associated with dementia, and that middle ear reconstruction (MER) associates with improved outcomes for these measures in a multinational electronic health records database.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>Retrospective cohort study with propensity-score matching (PSM).</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>TriNetX is a research database representing about 110 million patients from the United States, Taiwan, Brazil, and India.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Subjects older than 50 years with no HL and any CHL (ICD-10: H90.0-2). Subjects of any age with and without any MER (CPT: 1010174).</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Odds ratios (ORs) and hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for incident dementia (ICD-10: F01, F03, G30).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 103,609 patients older than 50 years experiencing any CHL, 2.74% developed dementia compared with 1.22% of 38,216,019 patients with no HL (OR, 95% CI: 2.29, 2.20-2.37). Of patients experiencing CHL, there were 39,850 who received MER. The average age was 31.3 years, with 51% female patients. A total of 343,876 control patients with CHL were identified; 39,900 patients remained in each cohort after 1:1 PSM for HL- and dementia-related risk factors. Matched risk for developing dementia among MER recipients was 0.33% compared with 0.58% in controls (OR: 0.58, 0.46-0.72).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CHL increases the odds for dementia, and MER improves the odds for incident dementia. This study represents the first population study on the topic of CHL, MER, and dementia.</p>","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"1078-1086"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11392634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142018256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004289
Alfonso Scarpa, Mario Carucci, Massimo Ralli, Pietro De Luca, Giovanni Salzano, Pasquale Viola, Giuseppe Chiarella, Antonio Salzano Francesco
{"title":"EFFICACY OF INTRATYMPANIC OTO-104 FOR THE TREATMENT OF MÉNIÈRE'S DISEASE: THE OUTCOME OF THREE RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDIES.","authors":"Alfonso Scarpa, Mario Carucci, Massimo Ralli, Pietro De Luca, Giovanni Salzano, Pasquale Viola, Giuseppe Chiarella, Antonio Salzano Francesco","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004289","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004289","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"1087-1088"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142056277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Otology & NeurotologyPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004295
Taimur Siddiqui, Benjamin D Lovin, Michelle T Nguyen, Megan Marsh, Jessica B Spiro, Jennifer Wickesberg-Summers, Amy Cantu, Ronald J Vilela, Alex D Sweeney, Nathan R Lindquist
{"title":"Pediatric Failure Rates and Speech Outcomes in the HiRes Ultra and Ultra 3D Series Recall.","authors":"Taimur Siddiqui, Benjamin D Lovin, Michelle T Nguyen, Megan Marsh, Jessica B Spiro, Jennifer Wickesberg-Summers, Amy Cantu, Ronald J Vilela, Alex D Sweeney, Nathan R Lindquist","doi":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004295","DOIUrl":"10.1097/MAO.0000000000004295","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The recent Field Corrective Action (FCA) for the HiRes Ultra and Ultra 3D (V1) cochlear implants (CIs) triggered much research investigating clinical identification, failure rates, and postrevision outcomes. Pediatric data remain limited, especially with regards to speech outcomes. We aim to characterize the trajectory of children implanted with these devices with specific attention to speech outcomes.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Retrospective cohort study of pediatric patients with FCA-affected CIs from March 2017 to January 2020 at a tertiary children's hospital.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>CI placement, device monitoring, audiologic evaluation, revision surgery.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>CI failure rates, revision surgery rate, speech recognition outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty-one devices were implanted in 27 pediatric patients. Average age at implantation was 4.01 years (range, 0.87-12.75). To date, 30 devices (73%) are known failures with 90% of these having undergone revision surgery. No statically significant difference was noted on open-set speech testing across best prerevision, immediate prerevision, and best postrevision time points. Best postrevision CNC scores had a mean score of 71% ± 26%, n = 16.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Pediatric patients implanted with FCA-affected CI devices have a high risk of device failure. Open-set speech recognition was not significantly different from prerevision to postrevision testing, suggesting preserved speech outcomes. This may be partially attributable to limitations of cohort size and the pediatric population with open-set speech testing. However, we suspect that close follow-up with standardized testing and a low threshold for revision surgery provided by our multidisciplinary team may have mitigated these changes. Postrevision open-set speech testing remains positive for these patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":19732,"journal":{"name":"Otology & Neurotology","volume":" ","pages":"1012-1015"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142081217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}