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One-Year Follow up of Auditory Performance in Post-Lingually Deafened Adults Implanted with the Neurelec Digisonic® Sp/saphyr® Neo Cochlear Implant System

2015; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4081/audiores.2015.139

2039-4349

Déborah Borger, Geneviève Lina‐Granade, Stéphanie Verneyre, Hung Thai‐Van, Sonia Saaï, Michel Hoen, Dan Gnansia, Éric Truy,

Ear Surgery and Otitis Media

This study aimed to quantify outcomes in a group of patients who were implanted with an Oticon Medical Neurelec (Vallauris, France) cochlear implant system, the Digisonic® SP/Saphyr® Neo. Ten participants took part in this preliminary study. Their speech perception capacities were evaluated at 3, 6, and 12-months after cochlear implant activation and compared to pre-implantation scores and to scores observed with former versions of the sound processor. Compared to former versions of the sound processor, patients using the Saphyr® Neo processor obtained better speech perception scores for sentences in silence at each tests session (3 months: 79%, 6 months: 82% and 12 months: 94%) compared to Digisonic® users (respectively: 58%, 69% and 75%) and Convex sound processor users (resp. 39%, 59% and 51%). These observations confirm that the technological improvements made in the Saphyr® Neo sound processor coupled with the Digisonic® implant, provided quantifiable benefits in speech perception in Quiet compared to former versions of the processor Convex and Digisonic® SP.