TITLE: 4 CASE REPORTS OF SPLIT MED,EL IMPLANT IN
OSSIFIED COCHLEAR

AUTHORS: Farhadi M, Daneshi A, Emamdjomeh H, Hassanzadeh S

Iranian cochlear implant center, # 47,Eilvarchi st.,Nejatolahi st. Tehran, Iran
E-mail: Irancic@hbi.dmr .or .ir

PRESENTED IN: SPLIT ELECTRODE MEETING IN FRANKFURT DEC 9 -1999

ABSTRACT

It seemed that ossified cochlear in patients with meningitis is a contraindication for cochlear implant. However, inventions of some methods such as ~G.B~ ,made it possible to implant these patients with followed good results.

Iranian Cochlear Implant Team, also, has used this method to implant ossified cochleas.

This article represents 4 case reports of split electrode implants in postlingually deaf patients with meningitis. Also ,an illustrated report of telephonic communication of one of them in open-set mode is represented.

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