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Effect of age, electrode array, and time on cochlear implant impedances. 2020

Sandra Velandia, and Diane Martinez, and Stefania Goncalves, and Stefanie Pena, and Esperanza Bas, and Liliana Ein, and Sandra Prentiss, and Fred Telischi, and Simon Angeli, and Christine T Dinh
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.

Objectives: To determine the impact of age, electrode array, and time on impedance patterns in cochlear implant (CI) patients. Methods: A retrospective case review was performed on 98 patients implanted with the CI24RE perimodiolar (PM) and CI422 lateral wall (LW) arrays between 2010 and 2014 to assess impedances at the 1 week and 3-6 month visit after initial stimulation (IS). Results: With respect to age, impedances were higher in young patients compared to older patients in the middle and apical turns. With time, there were significant reductions in impedances across most electrodes. Electrode array type also had a significant impact on impedance measurements with PM and LW arrays having higher impedances in the basal turn and apical turns, respectively. Furthermore, PM arrays demonstrated significantly lower impedances in the middle and apical turn with time, when compared to LW arrays. Conclusions: Age, electrode array, and time can independently affect CI impedances. Moreover, we show that PM arrays may be advantageous to LW arrays, due to demonstrated lower impedances in the middle and apical turns long term. Understanding the impact of impedance on speech discrimination and determining the intracochlear processes that contribute to differences in impedance are future research directions.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007223 Infant A child between 1 and 23 months of age. Infants
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D003054 Cochlear Implants Electronic hearing devices typically used for patients with normal outer and middle ear function, but defective inner ear function. In the COCHLEA, the hair cells (HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR) may be absent or damaged but there are residual nerve fibers. The device electrically stimulates the COCHLEAR NERVE to create sound sensation. Auditory Prosthesis,Cochlear Prosthesis,Implants, Cochlear,Auditory Prostheses,Cochlear Implant,Cochlear Prostheses,Implant, Cochlear,Prostheses, Auditory,Prostheses, Cochlear,Prosthesis, Auditory,Prosthesis, Cochlear
D004867 Equipment Design Methods and patterns of fabricating machines and related hardware. Design, Equipment,Device Design,Medical Device Design,Design, Medical Device,Designs, Medical Device,Device Design, Medical,Device Designs, Medical,Medical Device Designs,Design, Device,Designs, Device,Designs, Equipment,Device Designs,Equipment Designs
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000158 Acoustic Impedance Tests Objective tests of middle ear function based on the difficulty (impedance) or ease (admittance) of sound flow through the middle ear. These include static impedance and dynamic impedance (i.e., tympanometry and impedance tests in conjunction with intra-aural muscle reflex elicitation). This term is used also for various components of impedance and admittance (e.g., compliance, conductance, reactance, resistance, susceptance). Audiometry, Impedance,Electroacoustic Impedance Tests,Impedance Tests, Acoustic,Tympanometry,Acoustic Impedance Test,Electroacoustic Impedance Test,Impedance Audiometry,Impedance Test, Acoustic,Impedance Test, Electroacoustic,Impedance Tests, Electroacoustic,Test, Acoustic Impedance,Test, Electroacoustic Impedance,Tests, Acoustic Impedance,Tests, Electroacoustic Impedance

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