Background: Some patients with chronic middle ear disease and multiple failed revisions, who also need a hearing aid, may benefit from an active middle ear implant. An advantage of an active middle ear implant is that the ear canal is unoccluded.
Methods: Following extensive experimental development in temporal bones and investigations of various locations and attachments of a Vibrant Soundbridge transducer, a new titanium clip holder for the vibrant floating mass transducer was developed. This assembly is a total ossicular replacement prosthesis (TORP) that is placed on the stapes footplate. Six patients were implanted with this device.
Results: Acoustic results demonstrate significantly improved gain, especially in the high frequencies, which is typically unobtainable by conventional hearing aids.
Conclusion: The simple procedure of placing an active TORP assembly on the stapes footplate, similar to the implantation of a passive TORP prosthesis during tympanoplasty, offers promising treatment for cases of incurable middle ear disease. / Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:27554 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Hüttenbrink, Karl-Bernd, Beutner, Dirk, Zahnert, Thomas |
| Publisher | Karger |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Böheim K (ed): Active Middle Ear Implants. Adv Otorhinolaryngol. Basel, Karger, 2010, vol 69, pp 27–31, ISSN: 0065-3071 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1159/000318519 |
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