Severe Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss Clinical Trial
Official title:
Cochlear Implantation Among Adults and Older Children With Unilateral or Asymmetric Hearing Loss
Do adults and children over 7 years of age with unilateral or assymetric hearing loss benefit from cochlear implantation on the worst hearing side.
Unilateral hearing loss is known to impair binaural hearing abilities. Specifically,
localization, speech understanding in noise, and binaural squelch suffer due to lack of
binaural timing and level cues. This study is designed to examine how binaural hearing is
improved following cochlear implantation on the impaired side. The study endpoints are
collected at 6 months and 12 months post activation of the implant.
This is not a funded study. All costs are billed through insurance for reimbursement. There
is an insurance approval process that we move through after a participant has been evaluated
at the Mayo Clinic and found to be a candidate for cochlear implantation.
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