Bone-anchored hearing aids: Correlation between pure-tone thresholds and outcome in three user groups

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 884-890

  Pfiffner, Flurin ^a   Kompis, Martin ^a   Stieger, Christof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Air conduction; Bone anchored hearing aids; Bone conduction; Correlation; Single sided deafness; Sound field threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; BONE CONDUCTION; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SUTURE ANCHORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349741238     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181b4e8eb     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Tjellstrom A, Rosenhall U, Lindstrom J, et al. Five-year experience with skin-penetrating bone-anchored implants in the temporal bone. Acta Otolaryngol 1983;95:568-575
2. Niparko JK, Cox KM, Lustig LR. Comparison of the bone anchored hearing aid implantable hearing device with contralateral routing of offside signal amplification in the rehabilitation of unilateral deafness. Otol Neurotol 2003;24:73-78
3. Hakansson B, Tjellstrom A, Rosenhall U. Hearing thresholds with direct bone conduction versus conventional bone conduction. Scand Audiol 1984;13:3-13. (Pubitemid 14155874)
4. Gründer I, Seidl RO, Ernst A, Todt I. Relative value of BAHA testing for the postoperative audiological outcome [in German]. HNO 2007;50:495-500.
5. Bosman AJ, Snik AF, van der Pouw CT, Mylanus EA, Cremers CW. Audiometric evaluation of bilaterally fitted Bone-anchored Hearing Aids. Audiology 2001;40:158-167
6. Snik AFM, Bosman AJ, Mylanus EAM, et al. Candidacy for the Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid. Audiol Neurootol 2004;9:190-196
7. Kompis M, Krebs M, Hausler R. Speech understanding in quiet and in noise with the Bone-anchored Hearing Aids BAHA Compact and BAHA Divino. Acta Otolaryngol 2007;127:829-835 (Pubitemid 47344045)
8. Kompis M, Krebs M, Hausler R. Verification of normative values for the Swiss version of the Freiburg speech intelligibility test [in German]. HNO 2006;54:445-450
9. Nolan M, Lyon DJ. Transcranial attenuation in bone conduction audiometry. J Laryngol Otol 1981;95:597-608. (Pubitemid 11081663)
10. Stenfelt S, Hakansson B, Tjellström A. Vibration characteristics of bone conducted sound in vitro. J Acoust Soc Am 2000;107:422-431 (Pubitemid 30039167)
11. Hakansson B, Tjellstrom A, Rosenhall U. Acceleration levels at hearing threshold with direct bone conduction versus conventional bone conduction. Acta Otolaryngol 1985;100:240-252 (Pubitemid 15233609)
12. Cochlear, Inc. BAHA Divino Data Sheet 2006. Göteborg, Sweden. Order no.: 100025.
13. ANSI S3.5-1997. American National Standards Methods for Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index. American National Standards Institute. New York, New York. 1997.
14. Kompis M. Audiologie. Göttingen, Germany: Hans Huber, 2009:103-104
15. Lehnhardt E, Laszig R. Praxis der Audiometrie. Stuttgart, Germany: Thieme, 2001:173-196
16. Reinfeld S, Stenfelt A, Good T, et al. Examination of bone-conducted transmission from sound field excitation measured by thresholds, ear-canal sound pressure, and skull vibration. J Acoust Soc Am 2007;121:1576-1587 (Pubitemid 46555423)
17. Lustig LR, Arts HA, Brackmann DE, et al. Hearing rehabilitation using the BAHA Bone-anchored Hearing Aid: results in 40 patients. Otol Neurotol 2001;22:328-334 (Pubitemid 32422732)