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Enormous variability in speech recognition outcomes persists in adults who receive cochlear implants (CIs), which leads to a barrier to progress in predicting outcomes before surgery, explaining "poor" outcomes, and determining how to provide tailored rehabilitation therapy for individual CI users. The primary goal of my research program over the past 9 years has been to extend our understanding of the contributions of "top-down" cognitive-linguistic skills to CI outcomes in adults, acknowledging that "bottom-up" sensory processes also contribute substantially. The main objective of this invited narrative review is to provide an overview of this work. A secondary objective is to provide career "guidance points" to budding surgeon-scientists in Otolaryngology.

A narrative, chronological review covers work done by our group to explore top-down and bottom-up processing in adult CI outcomes. A set of ten guidance points is also provided to assist junior Otolaryngology surgeon-scientists.

Work in our lab has identified substantial contributions of cognitive skills (working memory, inhibition-concentration, speed of lexical access, nonverbal reasoning, verbal learning and memory) as well as linguistic abilities (acoustic cue-weighting, phonological sensitivity) to speech recognition outcomes in adults with CIs. These top-down skills interact with the quality of the bottom-up input.

Although progress has been made in understanding speech recognition variability in adult CI users, future work is needed to predict CI outcomes before surgery, to identify particular patients' strengths and weaknesses, and to tailor rehabilitation approaches for individual CI users.

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This study aimed to test the hypothesis that contrast-enhanced 3D MRI with gradient-echo sequences (CE-3D-GRE) can detect signs of vasculitis in the fallopian canal, which may cause otologic involvement, in four patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV).

CE-3D-GRE acquired at 3.0 Tesla was performed on four patients diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis or eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, at onset or relapse of the disease, and in remission. Clinical correlations between otologic symptoms and radiological findings were examined for each patient. Furthermore, signal intensity of the mastoid segment of the fallopian canal was compared between the ears with active disease (n = 3) and those in remission or without vasculitis (n = 3).

Intense enhancement in the tympanic and mastoid segments of the fallopian canal was associated with development of external otitis, otitis media, and sensorineural hearing loss, and was unrelated to the presence of facial paresis. Maximal intensity projection images visualized the close relationship between the enhanced fallopian canal and middle ear inflammation. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/bay-2416964.html The findings were absent in remission. Signal intensity of the mastoid segment of the fallopian canal was higher in ears with active disease than in normal ears (
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CE-3D-GRE can demonstrate vasculitis in the temporal bone, reflecting disease activity and the severity of otologic manifestations, including cochlear involvement, in AAV patients. Intense enhancement of the fallopian canal on CE-3D-GRE can be a potential marker for vasculitis of the temporal bone.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the hearing outcomes of cochlear implantation (CI) in patients with hearing loss who had received radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). The study compared speech perception in patients who had prior radiotherapy with those who did not receive radiotherapy.

Eighty-eight Cantonese speaking adult patients who had profound sensorineural hearing loss and received CI from 1995 to 2015 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong CI-center were studied. Twenty-five patients had history of NPC and radiotherapy were determined as the exposed group, while 63 patients of mixed etiologies but with no history of radiotherapy were included in the control group. The Hong Kong Speech Perception Test Manual (HKSPTM) scores preoperatively, at 6, 12, and 24 months postoperatively were used to assess hearing performance. The HKSPTM consisted categories of speech recognition, word recognition, and tone perception.

No statistical significance differences were found at the four time-points in the three categories of HKSPTM between the two groups.

CI is a clinically effective intervention and good rehabilitative option for hearing restoration in NPC patients with hearing impairment. Further studies with greater sample size and additional pathological studies on the pathophysiology of hearing loss in this subgroup of patients may provide supplementary information for clinicians when counseling for CI.

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To evaluate feedback-dependent vocal control in cochlear implant patients using pitch-shifted auditory feedback.

Twenty-three CI recipients with at least 6 months of implant experience were enrolled. Vocal recordings were performed while subjects repeated the vowel /e/ and vocal signals were altered in real-time using a digital effects processor to introduce a pitch-shift, presented back to subjects using headphones. Recordings were analyzed to determine pitch changes following the pitch-shifted feedback, and results compared to the magnitude of the shift as well as patient demographics.

Consistent with previous results, CI patients' voices had higher pitches with their implant turned off, a change explainable by increases in vocal loudness without the CI. CI patients rapidly compensated for pitch-shifted feedback by changing their vocal pitch, but only for larger shifts. Considerable inter-subject variability was present, and weakly correlated with the duration of implant experience and implant sound thresholds.

CI patients, like normal hearing individuals, are capable of real-time feedback-dependent control of their vocal pitch. However, CI patients are less sensitive to small feedback changes, possibly a result of courser CI frequency precision, and may explain poorer than normal vocal control in these patients.

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