Objective:To evaluate the effectiveness of amplification intervention with hearing aids for restoring binaural auditory function in patients with unilateral moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss. Methods:This study selected 30 patients with normal hearing in one ear and moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss in the other ear. They were fitted with hearing aids for the worse ear and underwent more than half a year and one year of adaptation training. The Chinese translation of the Twelve-item version of SSQ（C-SSQ12）, angle identification test, speech recognition score（SRS） at different signal-to-noise ratios（SNR=5 and SNR=10） and audiometric thresholds were used to compare the results before and after hearing aid use to evaluate the effectiveness of the unilateral hearing loss intervention. Results:The results of the audiometric thresholds, C-SSQ12 scores, angle identification test, and SRS at SNR=5 and SNR=10 in the worse ear of the unilateral hearing loss patients after hearing aid use were all statistically significant compared to before hearing aid use（P<0.01）. Conclusion:Amplification intervention with hearing aids has significant effects on restoring binaural auditory function in patients with unilateral moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss.
Humans ; Hearing Aids ; Hearing Loss, Unilateral/therapy* ; Middle Aged ; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/rehabilitation* ; Adult ; Female ; Male ; Auditory Threshold ; Young Adult ; Aged

Objective:To report the experience of the application of internal carotid artery stent in skull base surgery, and to clarify the important role of internal carotid artery stent in skull base surgery.Methods:A retrospective study of 22 cases with skull base neoplasms implanted with internal carotid artery stents in the Department of ENT Head and Neck Surgery at the Sixth People′s Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University between July 2019 and January 2021 was conducted. Among them, 17 were male and 5 were female, aged between 33 and 75 years. There were 5 cases on the left, 16 cases on the right, and 1 case on both sides. Of these, there were 4 cases of jugular paraganglioma, 1 case of chondrosarcoma in the jugular foramen, 1 case of carotid body paraganglioma, and 16 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma after radiotherapy.Results:The degree of internal carotid artery erosion was assessed by computed tomography angiography (CTA), magnetic resonance imaging and digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images in 22 patients before surgery. It was found that the internal carotid artery was involved to varying degrees in all patients, so internal carotid artery stents were implanted before surgery. Tumor tissue was found to surround the internal carotid artery to varying degrees. Total or subtotal tumor resection was performed in all patients, and no intraoperative and postoperative complications occurred. The postoperative follow-up was 5 months to 2 years, and all patients had no complications such as spontaneous bleeding and pseudo aneurysm. There were no signs of stenosis or occlusion of the internal carotid artery stent segment in all cases.Conclusions:For patients with skull base tumors, preoperative imaging indicates the limited involvement of the internal carotid artery, and internal carotid artery stent implantation before surgery is a safe and effective treatment.

Cochlear implantation has been a standard therapy for treating severe deafness because patients who receive it have better speech perception. However, the hearing performance of cochlear implantation in noisy environment is far from satisfaction. Efforts have been made to reverse such condition, such as EAS, bimodal stimulation, environment-adaptive speech enhancement and multipolar stimulation, and patients who receive it get more or less better speech perception in noisy environment than traditional cochlear implantation.
Cochlear Implants ; Equipment Design ; Humans ; Noise ; Speech Perception

Objective To investigate the effects of the intellegent CO2 laser assisted Fisch stapedotomy with artificial stape prostheses in the treatment of otosclerosis.Methods A total of 28 patients with otosclerosis who had undergone the intellegent CO2 laser assisted Fisch stapedotomy with artificial stape prostheses were retrospectively e-valuated.The intellegent CO2 lasersare was used to vaporize stapedius tendon,posterior crus of stapes,and most importantly perforate stapes footplate.Bone and air conduction thresholds were determined at 0 .5 ,1 ,2 ,and 4 kHz preoperatively and 6 months postoperatively in all patients.Results No sustained vertigo or sensorineural hearing loss occurred postoperatively.There were no statistically significant differences between preoperative and postopera-tive average bone conduction thresholds.Preoperative and postoperative air bone gap were 30.38(23.13,39.38)dB HL,9.75(8.25,10)dB respectively and the postoperative results were significantly different from the preopera-tive.Conclusion The intellegent CO2 laser can be used safely in stapes footplate surgery and is well suited for trea-ting otosclerosis.

Objective To investigate the characteristic of the cisplatin-induced damage of hair cells in cochlear organotypic cultures. Methods Three to four-day-old (P3～4) C57 mice were used for this study. The cochlear basilar membrane was cultured for 6~8 hours and then treated with different doses of cisplatin(0?mol/L, 10?mol/L, 50?mol/L, 100?mol/L, 400?mol/L, 1000?mol/L,7 cochlears for 0-100?mol/L group, 6 cochlears for the rest dosage, control group used the dose of 0?mol/L)for 48 hours.TRITC-phalloidin and DAPI were used for stain. The entire cochlear hair cells were observed and counted under Nicon fluorescent microscope. Data was analyzed by LS for hair cells loss graph and SAS 8.0 for linear regression analysis. Results Hair cells loss had rarely been seen in the control group of cochlear tissue under the culture condition. How ever, in cisplatin treated groups, the hair cells loss increased from 14.5% to 78.4% with the concentration of cisplatin increased in the range of 10?mol/L-100?mol/L, while decreased from 48.8% down to 8.77% with the dose getting further higher to 400?mol/L and 1000?mol/L. Apoptosis was confirmed by the DAPI stain in the hair cells loss area. The hair cell loss shows no difference from the apex to the basal turn of the basilar membrane. Conclusion Cisplatin-induced hair cell death shows characteristic damage that it is dose-dependent in a certain range of dosage, and it decreases when the cisplatin dose higher than the one caus maximal damage under the condition of cochlear organotypic cutures. Apoptosis happens evenly in inner and outer hair cells in all turns of basilar membrane.