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Open AccessThe German cochlear implant registry: one year experience and first results on demographic data
Clinical registries have great potential for quality control of medical procedures regarding the indications, therapeutic processes and results, including their possible complications. This is particularly tru...
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Open AccessQuality control in cochlear implant therapy: clinical practice guidelines and registries in European countries
The treatment with a cochlear implant (CI) is the gold standard in therapy of patients with profound hearing loss or deafness. Successful hearing rehabilitation with a CI is a complex, multi-stage process. In ...
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Audiological benefit and subjective satisfaction with the ADHEAR hearing system in children with unilateral conductive hearing loss
The ADHEAR system (MED-EL, Innsbruck, Austria) is a new adhesive bone conduction hearing aid. This study evaluates the audiological benefit and subjective satisfaction as well as the manageability in everyday ...
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Strategies for a regenerative therapy of hearing loss
Despite impressive technical progress in the field of conventional hearing aids and implantable hearing systems, the hopes for the treatment of inner ear diseases such as hearing loss and tinnitus have become ...
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Vibrant Soundbridge® in preschool children with unilateral aural atresia: acceptance and benefit
The aim of this pilot study was to determine the acceptance and benefit from the middle ear implant system Vibrant Soundbridge® (VSB, MED-EL Corporation, Austria) by means of a questionnaire, compared to a previo...
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Concomitant chemoradiotherapy versus induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiotherapy as definitive, first line treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
Despite the lack of evidence to support its implementation in the clinical practice, induction chemotherapy (IC) before chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is often used in patients with locally advanced squamous cell car...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A polymer based local drug delivery system on plasma activated silicon implant surfaces
Medical implants which include a local drug delivery system are a growing area in implant development. For many implant applications silicone is used as material because of its chemical inertness and good biol...
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Audiological performance in cochlear implanted patients deafened by meningitis depending on duration of deafness
The objective of our study was to evaluate audiological outcome in cochlear implanted children deafened by meningitis and its correlation with duration of deafness from meningitis in a retrospective clinical s...
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Transduction of the contralateral ear after adenovirus-mediated cochlear gene transfer
Cochlear gene transfer is a promising new approach for inner ear therapy. Previous studies have demonstrated hair cell protection with cochlear gene transfer not only in the inoculated, but also in the uninocu...
