Benefit of cochlear implants in adult individuals with prelingual deafness: DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200832.2.15

• Autor(a) principal: Barreto Giorgi Sant’Anna, Sandra
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: de Oliveira Eichner, Andréa Cristina, Cardoso Guedes, Mariana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: O Mundo da Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistamundodasaude.emnuvens.com.br/mundodasaude/article/view/808
• topic: Surdez. Implante coclear. Qualidade de vida.; Deafness. Cochlear implant. Quality of life.

The indication of cochlear implants for patients with pre-lingual loss, both adolescents and adults, was always very controversialdue to the fact that most studies show little or no benefit in the open set speech recognition. It is necessary to review thisconcept, reorganizing pre-implant evaluation, emphasizing language evaluation, social insertion and expectation. This work aims toevaluate the benefits young adults with prelingual deafness have after cochlear implant, considering not only the results in speechperception tests, but also the subjective impressions of patients in relation to the changes in quality of life. This is a transversal retrospectiveclinical study. We evaluated the results of speech perception tests and the subjective perception of quality of life after theconstant use of cochlear implants of eleven young adults with prelingual deafness and submitted to surgery for implantation. Only twoindividuals presented an open-site speech recognition at a rate of 50% or more. All individuals were able to recognize their own namesand to discriminate suprasegmental aspects. Some patients with long-standing prelingual deafness develop auditory abilities and havea good performance in open-set speech recognition. However, even those not capable of reaching these results say to be satisfied withthe device and recognize an improvement in quality of life.