Predictors for speech understanding in Cochlea Implant users – Hoppe score for straight electrodes

Introduction Cochlea Implantation is a well-known treatment for patients with functional deafness. With growing numbers of implants and expanded inclusion criteria of implantation, patients need to be conveyed realistic expectations about their outcome in speech understanding.

Methods 90 patients implanted with lateral wall/straight electrodes were evaluated in a retrospective, monocentric study. We analyzed the maximum monosyllabic speech understanding using the Hoppe-Score in advance of cochlea implantation and a year after cochlea implantation.

Results We included 90 patients within an investigation period from 2018 to 2022. In 80% of the cases a strong correlation could be shown with the predicted speech understanding and the actual speech understanding.

Discussion Postoperative speech understanding after cochlea implantation can be foreseen in straight electrodes in the same manner as in modiolar electrodes by using the Hoppe-Score. Therewith, Hoppe-Score seems to be useful with no regard to fabricants and electrode design.

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Artikel online veröffentlicht:
19. April 2024