
JOINT MEETINGIV
CONSENSUSIN AUDITORY IMPLANTS
Presidents: Salvatore Bacciu MD, Mario Sanna MD
V EAONO INSTRUCTIONAL WOEKSHOP
President: Angel Ramos MD
FINAL PROGRAM
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
8:00 - 8:30 Opening Ceremony
Jacques Magnan (France), Angel Ramos (Spain), Carlo Zini (Italy)
8:30 - 9:30 Round Table: Hearing Loss in Children
Moderator: Mr. Thomas Nikolopoulos (United Kindom) - Faculty: Emmanuel Mylanus (The Netherlandx), Edoardo Arslan (Italy), Costantino Morera (Spain), Henrik Skarzinsky (Poland), Rene Daumann (France), Adriana De Filippis (Italy)
9:30 - 10:30 Free Paper (Room 1-8)
Room 1 - Chairmen: D. Cuda (Italy), G. Jablonski (Norway)
- Comparison of round window and cochleostomy approaches for hearing preservation: Analysis using computational structures technology - Kozo Kumukawa (Tokio, Japan)
- New trends with cochlear implants and implication for the electrode design - ClaudeJolly (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Significance of hearing preservation with deep electrode insertion - Claude Jolly (Innsbruck,Austria)
- The Round Window Revisited: the Natural Way for Cochlear Implants Roberto Angeli (Piacenza, Italy)
- Case Report: Hearing Preservation with a Cocjhlear Implant in a Patient Affected by Partial Deafness -Domenico Cuda (Piacenza, Italy)
- Investigation of Cochlear Implant Electrode Positioning using Flat Detector Computer Tomography (FD-TC) - Greg Eigner Jablonski (Oslo, Norway)
Room 2 - Chairmen: W. Livi (Italy), P. Merkus (The Netherlands)
- Decision making in advanced otosclerosis: cochIear implantation when and how? AFC De Cock (Amsterdam.The Netherlands)
- Dutch Cochlear Implant Group (CI-ON) consensus protocol on postmeningitis hearing evaluation and treatment - Paul Merkus (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Cochlear Implantation in Children with Cerebral Palsy - A. Bacciu, P. Fois, MT. Breghenti (Parma, Italy)
- Cochlear Implants in Hemosiderosis - Andrea De Vito (Pisa, Italy)
- Cochlear implantation for Usher syndrome type II - Jussi Jero (Turku, Finland)
- Cochlear Implant in a Common Cavity Case - Walter Livi (Siena, Italy)
Room 3 - Chairmen: E. Pasanisi (Italy), J. Mulder (The Netherlands)
- Cochlear Implantation programme in the Kingdom of Bahrain Review of 70 cases - Ahmed Jamal (Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain)
- Experience on Cochlear Implants - Vassiliki Paliobei (Tessaloniki, Greece)
- Universal newborn hearing screening in Clinical Center Nis and cochlear implantation (CI) - Mila Bojanovic (Nis, Serbia)
- Evaluation of Med-El CI implanted children in East Algeria - Samia Labassi (Bordeaux, France)
- Results of cochlear Implantation in pre-lingually deaf adults - Jeff Mulder (Nijmegen, The Nederlands)
- Cochlear Implant Outcome in Postlingually DeafenedAdults. Comparison of ThreeDevices - E. Pasanisi, P. Fois, G. di Trapani, MT Breghenti (Parma and Piacenza, Italy)
Room 4 - Chairmen: G. Bianchin (Italy), D. Adams (Germany)
- Benefits of Cochlear Implants in Children with Multi/Handicaps - F. Forli (Pisa, Italy)
- Bimodal stimulation can drastically improve speech intelligibility thresholds even after implantation of the worse ear with long lasting sensorineural deprivation - Thierry Mom (Clermont Ferrand, France)
- Automatic and outcome-driven expert fitting: a new approach to program cochlear implants - Paul Govaerts (Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium)
- Music Perception in Everyday Life - Subjective Rating of Users of different Cochlear Implant Generations - Doris Adams (Hannover, Germany)
- Estudio Comparativo: Conducta Adaptativa, Problemas de Conducta, Hitos en el Desarrollo y Resultados Educativos en un Grupo de Nonios Sordos Espanoles que Utilizan el IC desde Edades Tempranas, respecto a Otro de Pares Oyentes - Salud Jimenez Romero (Cordoba, Spain)
- Speech Perception Benefits of Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Adults: Reggio Emilia Experience - Patrizia Formigoni (Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Room 5 - Chairmen: E. Truy (France), M. Dagmar (Czech Republic)
- DUET 2: the Second Generation of EAS Processors - Results from a DUET to DUET 2 Upgrade Study - Martin Eislende (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Towards better noise robustness in Cochlear Implants - J.H.M. Frijns (Leiden,The Netherlands)
- Speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise for patients using a Digisonic® SP Binaural cochlear implant system - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
- Binaural Digisonic SP cochlear implant : clinical results - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
- Champions profile for evaluation of paediatric cochlear implant users with complex needs – European retrospective study - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)
- Champions Evaluation Scales for Paediatric CI Users with Additional Disabilities - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)
Room 6 - Chairmen: B. Gunduz (Turkey), G. Sprinzl (Austria)
- Vibrant Soundbridge. Classical and New Indications - Pedro Claros (Barcelona, Spain)
- Round window implantation of the FMT of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE in problematic ears - Jan Maurer (Koblenz, Germany)
- VIBRANT SOUND BRIDGE MED-EL: Indications and Results - Giuseppe Lai (Iglesias, Ca, Italy)
- Intraoperative Measurements are necessary for VSB surgery? - Georg Sprinzl (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Preliminary Results of placing Floating Mass Transducers (FMT) on the Middle Ear Windows - Bulent Gunduz (Ankara, Turkey)
- Round window, oval window or „third window“ coupling of the Vibrant Soundbridge - Hans Wilhelm Pau (Rostock, Germany)
Room 7 - Chairmen: N. Frau (Italy), O. Deguine (France)
- The BAHA Devices Indications and Techniques - Maurizio Amadori ( Padova, Italy)
- BAHA Indications and Results - Claudio Cola (Rimini, Italy)
- BAHA or MedEl Vibrant Soundbridge : results and criteria of decision - Olivier Deguine (Toulouse, France)
- Saloon Doors: A new technique for BAHA surgery - Daniel aWengen (Binningen, Switzerland)
- Upgrade from BAHA to vibrant sound bridge - Tommaso Sorrentino (Toulouse, France)
- Middle Ear Implants in Otosclerosis - Nicolò Frau (Rovereto, TN, Italy)
Room 8 - Chairmen: T. Kobayashi (Japan), B. Mostafa (Egypt)
- Cancer of temporal bone: reported on 30 patients - Shujiro Minami (Tokyo, Japan)
- SDHAF2 (PGL2) and hereditary head and neck paraganglioma - Dirk Kunst (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- The Keyhole Retrosigmoid approach to the CPA : indications and technical modifications - Badr Mostafa (Nasr City Cairo, Egypt)
- Bioactive Glass in Skull Bone Trauma with CSF-leaks - Kalle Aitasalo (Turku, Finland)
- Different cases of postoperative facial palsy - Kensaku Hasegawa (Yonago, Japan)
- Erosive Lesions of the Temporal Presigmoid Retromeatal Posterior Fossa Plate: Case Report and Differential Diagnosis - Carlos Casquiero (Madrid, Spain)
Room 9 - Chairmen: G. Magliulo (Italy) E. Saleh (Egypt)
- Frequency of otosurgical procedures and its 1-year results related to middle ear pressure dysregulation - Jannick Bertelsen (Aalborg, Denmark)
- Incidence of middle ear cholesteatoma, locations, extensions, and complications during 1993 to 2009 - F. Nieland (Aalborg, Denmark)
- Our experience of intraoperative use of Mitomycin C for prevention of recurrent external ear canal stenosis - Lev Schlizerman (Afula, Israel)
- THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES ON REHABILITATION OF HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT COCHLEAR IMPLANT - Snezana Ristic (Nis, Serbia)
- Prevention and Management of Facial Palsy - Giuseppe Magliulo (Roma, Italy)
- The Retrolabyrinthine Approach in the Management of CPA Tumors and Meniere’s Disease - Vincent Darrouzet (Bordeaux, France)
9:30 - 10:30 Instructional Courses Session 0
- Management of Giant Cholesteatoma - Armagan Incesulu (Ankara,Turkey)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Instructional Courses Session 0
- Extended Indications in Cochlear Implants - Roland Laszig (Freiburg, Germany)
- Mastoidectomy in Middle Ear Disease - Giuseppe De Donato, Giuseppe Di Trapani (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
11:00 - 12:00 Free Paper (Room 1-8)
Room 1- Chairmen: F. Achena (Italy), D. Kaplan (Israel)
- The Bony Bridge Down-Up Approach: A New Surgical Procedure to Secure Cochlear and Middle Ear Implants - Francesco Achena (Iglesias, CA, Italy)
- Advanced Bionics’ minimally traumatic electrode array: temporal bone experiments with a 3-D force measurement system - Filliep Vanpoucke (Nile, Belgium)
- Hearing preservation in Partial Deafnes Treatment by using a new electrode SRA - Monica Matusiak (Warsaw, P{oland)
- Surgical Experience with the Neurelec cochlear Implants - Thierry Mom (Clermont Ferrand, France)
- Bilateral Cochlear Implants - Emmanuel Mylanus (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- Bilateral Cochlear Implants - Daniel Kaplan (Beer Sheva, Israel)
Room 2- Chairmen: N. Quaranta (Italy), L. Sennaroglu (Turkey)
- Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Children with Severe Inner Ear Malformations and Cochlear Nerve Aplasia - Levent Sennaroglu (Ankara, Turkey)
- Retrolabyrinthine approach for surgical placement of auditory brainstem implants in children - Ricardo Ferreira Bento (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
- Surgical Challenges in Cochlear Implantation - Shakeel Saeed (London, United Kingdom)
- Cochlear Implants in Challenging Cases - Nicola Quaranta (Bari, Italy)
- Cochlear Implantation as treatment for single-sided deafness - Andrea Kleine Punte (Antwerp, Belgium)
- Cochlear Implantation and Contralateral Auditory Brainstem Implantation - AR Sinnathuray (Marseille, France)
Room 3 - Chairmen: A. Tani (Italy), G. Wenzel (Germany)
- Evaluation of Pre-processing Algorithms of Hearing Aids in the Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant System - T. Rottmann (Hannover, Germany)
- Measure of loudness growth in cochlear implants recipients - Giorgio Lilli (Naples, Italy)
- Speech Discriminatiom in Implanted Patients under Different Competition Modalities - Andrea Tani (Bergamo, Italy)
- Long term results of cohlear implantation during the first year of life - Domenico Cuda (Piacenza, Italy)
- Clinical Outcomes of Cochlear Reimplantation - M. Ishikawa (Fukui City, Fukui, Japan)
- Benefits of Cochlear Implantation for Unilateral Deaf Patients with Ipsilateral Tinnitus - Gentiana Wenzel (Hannover, Germany)
Room 4 - Chairmen: E. Cassandro (Italy), D. Gazibegovic (Germany)
- Music evaluation in adult users of HiRes® 120 and previous generations of Advanced Bionics® sound coding strategies - Dzemal Gazibegovic (Hannover, Germany)
- Fitting to Outcomes eXpert (FOX®): Preliminary results of the multicentric study in adults - Dzemal Gazibegovic (Hannover, Germany)
- Self-assessment and Habits of Cochlear Implant Users at School and Education - Doris Adams (Hannover, Germany)
- The effect of pre-operative developmental delay on speech intelligibility of children with cochlear implant - Harukazu Hirauami (Kyoto, Japan)
- Evaluation of the Fitting Assistant FOX® - “Fitting to Outcomes eXpert” - Martina Brendel (Hannover, Germany)
- Assessment of the relationship between performance and predictive variables in a cohort of children wearing an Advanced Bionics cochlear implant - N. Bestel (Rixheim, France)
Room 5 - Chairmen: H.M. Frijns (The Netherlands), N. Yehudai (Israel)
- DUET 2: the Second Generation of EAS Processors - Results from a DUET to DUET 2 Upgrade Study - Martin Eislende (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Towards better noise robustness in Cochlear Implants - H.M Frijns (Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise for patients using a Digisonic® SP Binaural cochlear implant system - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
- Binaural Digisonic SP cochlear implant : clinical results - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
- Champions profile for evaluation of paediatric cochlear implant users with complex needs – European retrospective study - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)
- Champions Evaluation Scales for Paediatric CI Users with Additional Disabilities - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)
Room 6 - C. Streitberger (Italy), A. Deveze (France)
- Elecrtr-Mechanical Stimulation through the Cochlear Windows with the Vibrant Soundbridge (VBS) - Christian Streitberger (Merano, Italy)
- VSB Surgery and Aural Atresia - Georg Sprinzl (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Vibrant Soundbridge Implantation: Audiologic and Subjective Benefits in Quiet and Noisy Environments - Jean-Philippe Van Damme (Louvain, Belgium) Bilateral
- Results of the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) Fixed to the Stapes or Round Window Niche - Jeff Mulder (Nijmegen, The Nederlands)
- MRI Safety of the Vibrant Soundbridge - Ingo Todt (Berlin, Germany)
- How to Improve the Efficiency of the MET: Influence of the Coupling to the Ossicular Chain - Arnaud Deveze (Marseille, France)
Room 7 - Chairmen: S. Tringali (France), V. Koci (Austria)
- Active Middle Ear Implants: a Simplified Surgical Approach with the Semi-implantable Middle Ear Transducer from Otologics - Stephane Tringali (Lyon, France)
- Surgical Topics for Middle Ear Implants - Fitzgerald O’Connor (London, United Kingdom)
- 3rd Window Stimulation Directly to the Cochlea: Output Determination of the Direct Acoustical Cochlea Stimulator Partial Implant (DACS PI) - H. Maier (Lonay, Switzerland)
- Linguistic issues in candidacy criteria of electric acoustic stimulation method - Kozo Kumukawa (Tokio, Japan)
- Audiological results in patients using the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) - V Koci (Innsbruck, Austria)
- The sex hormone levels in the patients with vestibular disorders - Katarzyna Pawlak- Osinska (Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Room 8 - Chairmen: S. Kanzaki (Japan), H. Sunose (Japan)
- Sporadic unilateral vestibular schwannoma in pediatric patients - Yashuiro Inoue (Tokio, Japan)
- Acoustic neuroma and controlateral sudden hearing loss - A. Karkas (Grenoble, France)
- Spontaneous Tegmen Defects associated with Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence - Traik Elhadi (Toulouse, France)
- Stapedectomy in Sheep. An animal model for surgical training - A. Cordero (Madrid, Spain)
- Significant correlation between audiogram and perioperative testing ossicular mobility in otosclerosis patients - Sho Kanzaki (Tokyo, Japan)
- Results of inverse stapedotomy using manual perforator - N. Arsovic (Belgrade, Serbia)
12:00 - 13:00 Free Paper (Room 1-8)
Room 1- Chairmen: T. Sorrentino (Italy), P. Romanet (France)
- Cochlear Implantation in Very Young Children - Hensen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- The Binaural Cochlear Implant: Preliminary Results - Philippe Romanet (Dijon, France)
- Functional evaluation of atraumatic electrode insertion in cochlear implantations - Tommaso Sorrentino (Toulouse, France)
- Cochlear Implantation at Casa di Cura San Camillo - Massimo Magnani (Forte dei Marmi, Italy)
- Surgical Complications in 455 Cochlear Implantation - Leal Aquiles (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
- Complications Following Cochlear Implants in Adults - G. Stamatiou (Athens, Greece)
Room 2 - Chairmen: A. Taibah (Italy), R. Brito (Brazil)
- Cochlear Implant in the Management of Vestibular Schwannoma in the Only Hearing Ear - Abdelkader Taibah (Piacenza, Italy)
- Auditory Brainstem Implants - Shakeel Saeed (London, United Kingdom)
- Indications and Contraindications in ABI - Mario Sanna (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Simoultaneus Fast ABR and CNAP in Decision Making in Cochlear Implantation vs. ABI - Enrico Piccirillo (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Results of Brain Stem Implants on 3 Cases of Cochlear Nerve Aplasia - Jacques Magnan (Marseille, France)
- Surgical complications in ABI placement in children and adults - Rubens Brito (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Room 3 - Chairmen: V. Achilli (Italy), I. Todt (Germany)
- How to connect a Mobile Phone to a Cochlear Implant? - T. Rottmann (Hannover, Germany)
- Cochlear Implant Patients - Vestibular Function Testing in Comparison with Flat Panel CT Imaging - Karl Friedrik Nordfalk (Oslo, Norway)
- Static posturography with interactive balance system analysis in patients with cochlear implants - Federica Di Berardino (Milan, Italy)
- Influence of Cochlear Implantation on the Vestibular System - Ingo Todt (Berlin, Germany)
- Vestibular function following Cochlear Implantation - E Ionescu (Lyon, France)
- Reconstruction of external auditory canal in patient with lateral temporal bone resection: a case series of four patients - Masato Fujioka (Tokyo, Japan)
Room 4 - Chairmen: C. De Palma (Italy), L. Arnold (France)
- NRT over-threshold responses in subjects with cochlear implants Nucleus CI24/RE- Costantino De Palma (Messina, Italy)
- Speech understanding and subjective assessment after upgrade of the speech processor from Medel Tempo+ to Opus2 - Martin Kompis (Bern, Switzerland)
- Music evaluation in adult users of HiRes® 120 and previous generations of Advanced Bionics® sound coding strategies - Laure Arnold (Rixheim, France)
- Varese Mapping System - L. Dalla Costa (Varese, Italy)
- Rehabilitation of Cochlear Implants in Adults - L. Cucinotta (Varese, Italy)
- Phoneme Listening and Auditory Memory in Cochlear Implanted Children - Mikic Branka (Belgrade, Serbia)
Room 5 - Chairmen: D. Zanetti (Italy), A. Incesulu (Turkey)
- The change in hearing level and growth rate of acoustic neuromas in wait and scan policy - T. Watabe (Tokyo, Japan)
- Critical Issues and Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation in Bilingual Deaf Children - Diego Zanetti (Brescia, Italy)
- Direct Drive Fitting Study - Millo Beltrame (Rovereto, TN, Italy)
- Electric+Acoustic Stimulatiom for Treatment of Partially Deafened Patients: Our Results - Francesco Achena (Iglesias, CA, Italy)
- The Safety of Eliminating the Middle Ear: a Report of 51 Consecutive Cases in 19 Months - Carlos Martin Oviedo (Madrid, Spain)
- Vestibular Rehabilitation - Armagan Incesulu (Ankara, Turkey)
Room 6 - Chairmen: L. Bruschini (Italy), H. Jenkins (USA)
- Comparative Study of the Hearing Quality between the Fourth and the Last Generation of Audioprocessors for Vibrant Soundbridge Implant - Luca Bruschini (Pisa, Italy)
- Objective Measurements with Vibrant Soundbridge - Maurizio Perotti (Tortona, Italy)
- The fully implantable Cochlea amplifier CARINA – an experience in 58 patients with combined sensorineural as well as middle ear hearing loss - Markus Pfister (Tuebingen, Germany)
- Rehabilitation of Mastoid Cavity Combining Canaloplasty and Carina Implant - Arnaud Deveze (Marseille, France)
- US Phase II Clinical Trials of the Otologics Fully Implantable METTM Hearing System - Herman Jenkins (Denver, CO, USA)
- Vertigo as a presenting symptom for otosclerosis - Vedat Topsakal (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Room 7- Chairmen: J. Magnan (France), M. Gaihede (Denmark)
- Outcomes of the ClearVoiceTM Evaluation in Adults - Nathalie Mathias (Rixheim, France)
- Middle Ear Implantats Long Term Follow-Up - Jacques Magnan (Marseille, France)
- Electromechanic Active Middle ear implants: the best way to achieve stability of the transducer in oval and round windows - A. Lowi Benoliel (Madrid, Spain)
- Active Middle Ear Implants. New Indications and Surgical Procedures - Manuel Manrique (Pamplona, Spain)
- Vibroplasty in conductive or mixed hearing loss - Daniele Bernadeschi (Paris, France)
- Coherence Analysis of Suggestive Brain Areas Involved in Middle Ear Pressure Regulation in Humans - Michael Gaihede (Aalborg, Denmark)
Room 8 - Chairmen: G. Bertoli (Italy), M. Tong (Hong Kong)
- The preliminary study of thinly sliced cartilage for reconstruction of canal wall and tympanic membrane - Yasuomi Kunimoto ( Tottori, Japan)
- Consent for Mastoidectomy:A Patient’s Perspective - Dimitar Marev (Varna, Bulgaria)
- Hearing preservation in patients with labyrinthine fistula - Anamaria Gocea (Barcelona, Spain)
- Hearing prognosis in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis syndrome - Hiroaki Yazama (Yonago, Japan)
- Retro-conchal incision: a novel approach for the treatment of chonic otitis media - Giannantonio Bertoli (Rome, Italy)
- Management of Hearing in the Irradiated Ears - Michael Tong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 MXM Lunch Symposium (Plenary Session)
Moderator: Jaques Magnan (France)
- Introduction - C. Briand (CEO Neurelec)
- The Product Line - D. Emili (France)
- Clinical Outcomes - D. Gnansia (France)
- Cochleostomie/Round Window Approach - R. Bento (Brasil)
- Comparative Results of Three Different Implants - M. Sanna (Italy)
- Digisonic SP Binaural Technology and Results - E. Truy (France)
- Digisonic ABI in Selected Cases - J. Magnan (France)
- Closure - J. Magnan (France)
14:30 - 16:00 Consensus: New Indications and Limits of the Different Hearing Devices in Severe to Profound Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss
Moderator: Alain Uziel (France) - Faculty: Sandro Burdo (Italy), Daniel aWengen (Switzerland), Milan Profant (Slovak Republic), Thomas Linder (Switzerland), Alessandro Martini (Italy), Herman A. Jenkins (USA)
16:00 - 17:30 Cochlear Coffee Symposium: Cochlear Technology Update - Cochlear Round Table: Restoring Simmetry in Hearing (Plenary Session)
Moderator: Sandro Burdo (Italy)
- Wellcome - R. Brook (Switzerland)
- Introduction to the Program - S. Burdo (Italy)
- Cochlear Technology Update - C. Bertrand (Switzerland)
- 100 Nucleus ® CI500 surgeries - the Freiburg experience - R. Laszig (Germany)
- The Nucleus ® 5 System for children - A. Ramos (Spain)
- Round Table: Restoring Simmetry in Hearing - Panelists: S. Burdo (Italy) - R. Laszig (Germany)
- Closing Remarks - R. Brook (Switzerland)
17:30 - 18:30 Instructional Courses (Session 1)
- Pediatric Bilateral Cochlear Implantation. State of the Art - Angel Ramos Macias, Manuel Manrique (Las Palmas de GC and Pamplona, Spain)
- A New Anatomo-Functional Evaluation of Cochlear Implants Surgical Outcome - Eliana Cristofari Sandro Burdo, A. Meli (Varese, Italy)
- Temporal Bone Drilling Techniques: How to Drill and How not to! - Thomas Linder (Luzern, Switzerland)
- Radiology in Otology and Neurootology - Nikolaos Marangos (Athens, Greece)
- Acoustic Neurinoma - Gerald O'Donoghue (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
- The Obliterated Cochlea Treatment Strategies - Benno Weber (Rosenheim, Germany)
- Management of Peripheral Facial Paralysis - Yildirim Bayazit , Nebil Goksu (Ankara, Turkey)
- Difficult Stapedectomies - Nuri Ozgirgin ( Ankara, Turkey)
18:30 - 19:30 Instructional Courses (Session 2)
- Bilateral Cochlear Implantation with Single Device - Concept and Outcomes - Luminita Radulescu (Iasi, Romania)
- Individualized Techniques in Cholesteatoma Surgery - Fernando Mancini , Manuela Sacchi (Turin and Piacenza, Italy)
- Surgical Anatomy of the Middle Ear and Lateral Skull Base for Beginners - Tarek Khrais (Irbid, Jordan)
- Partial or Total Labirinthectomy and Hearing Preservation in Otology and Neurotology - Giuseppe Magliulo (Roma, Italy)
- Malignant Tumors of the Temporal Bone - Roberto Pareschi (Legnano, Italy)
- Cochlear Implantation in Medical Challenging Cases - John Xenelis (Greece)
- Management of the Patulous Eustachian Tube: A New Approach with the Sitting CT and the Patulous Eustachian Tube Plug (PEP) - Toshimitsu Kobayashi (Sendai, Japan)
- Argon Laser Stapedectomy - Janez Rebol (Maribor, Slovenia)
THURSDAY, JUNE 17
8:00 - 9:00 Instructional Courses (Session 3)
- Tympanoplasty: Surgical Technique Step by Step - Onur Celik (Manisa, Turkey)
- Otologics Middle Ear Transducers with Controlateral Conventional Hearing Aid in Severe Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Evolution during the First 24 Months - Christian Dubreil (Lyon, France)
- Tricks and Tips in Cochlear Implantations. The Different Devices - Paolo Solero (Torino, Italy)
- The Transotic Approach: a Reference Approach for Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma - Miguel Aristegui (Madrid, Spain)
- Material and Techniques in Myringoplasty - Maurizio Amadori (Padova, Italy)
- Avoiding Complications in Cochlear Implants Surgery - Pedro Claros (Barcelona, Spain)
- <!--StartFragment-->VSB Surgery in middle ear and mastoid desease<!--EndFragment--> - Millo Beltrame (Rovereto, TN, Italy)
- Bimodal Stimulation vs Bilateral Implantation - Domenico Cuda ( Piacenza, Italy)
9:00 - 10:00 Instructional Courses (Session 4)
- To Create a Self-Cleaning Open Cavity, Step by Step - Goetz Lehnerdt and Klaus Jahnke (Essen, Germany)
- From the Middle Ear Biomechanic to the Clinical Application of a Totally Implantable Hearing Device - Jean-Marc
Gerard, K. Van den Heuvel, M.P. Thill, M. Gersdorff (Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Cochlear Implantation and Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Tinnitus: on Neuromodulation, Indications and Outcomes - Paul Van de Heyning, Andrea Kleine Punte, Olivier Meeus (Edegem/Antwerp, Belgium)
- Petrous Apex Tumors. Differential Diagnosis and Surgical Approaches - Vittorio Achilli, A. De Stefano, V. Pistorio (Lodi, Italy)
- Over-Under Miringoplasty by Using Perichondral-Cartilage, Island Graft and Various Glass Ionomer Bone Cement Applications in the Reconstruction of Ossicles - Dadas Burhan (Istambul,Turkey)
- Surgical Approaches to the Scala Tympani in Cochlear Implant Surgery - AbdelKrim Lamrani (Annaba, Algerie)
- Lesson Learned in the Operative Treatment of Cancer Involving the External Ear Canal - The Oslo Experience - Ralph Doliner, M. Bunne, C. Laurent, G.E. Jablonski (Oslo,Norway)
- Work-Up of Congenital Hearing Losses - Alessandro Martini (Ferrara, Italy)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Consensus: State of the Art in Brain Stem Implants
Moderator: Mario Sanna (Italy) - Faculty: Ronald Laszig (Germany), Ricardo Bento (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Levent Sennaroglu (Turkey), Shakeel Saeed (United Kingdom), Alexis Bozorg Grayeli (France) Abdelkader Taibah (Italy), Maurizio Guida (Italy)
12:00 - 13:00 Consensus: Cochlear Implants in Advanced Indications
Moderator: Angel Ramos-Macias (Spain) - Faculty: Ronald Laszig (Germany), Manuel Manrique (Spain), Erwin Offeciers (Belgium), Gerald O'Donogue (United Kingdom), Paul Van de Heyning ( Belgium)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 MED-EL Lunch Symposium
Moderator: M. Beltrame (Italy) and C. Streitberger (Italy)
- 20 Years of MED-EL - I. Hochmair
- Microanatomy and Hearing Preservation - H. Rask Andersen
- Advantages of RW Approach in PDT - H. Skarzynski (Poland)
- Bilateral Electroacoustic Stimulation and Hearing Preservation after Deep Cochlear Electrode Insertion - P. Van de Heyning (Belgium)
- From EAS to General Atraumatic Surgery - J. Mueller (Germany)
- The Italian EAS Program - M. Beltrame (Italy)
14:30 - 16:00 Consensus: Middle Ear Implants Versus Bone Anchored Hearing Devices in Mixed Hearing Loss Moderator: Alec F. O'Connor (United Kingdom) - Faculty: Millo Beltrame (Italy), Eric Truy (France), Maurizio Barbara (Italy), Christian Streitberger (Italy), Istavan Sziklai (Hungary), Greg E. Jablonski (Norway)
16:00 - 17:00 Instructional Courses (Session 5)
- Fixation Methods for Cochlear Implants - Antje Aschendorf (Freiburg, Germany) Thomas Linder (Luzern, Switzerland)
- Cholesteatoma Surgery: the CWU Bony Obliteration Technique - Erwin Offeciers, Thomas Somers (Wilrijk, Antwerp,Belgium)
- The Endoscopic Surgery of the Middle Ear - Livio Presutti, Daniele Marchionni (Modena, Italy)
- Basic Anatomy for Ear Surgery - Asim Aslan (Manisa, Turkey)
- Stapes Surgery: Pittfalls and Solutions - Stefano Berrettini (Pisa, Italy)
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Temporal Bone - David Moffat (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
- Prevention of Recurrent Cholesteatoma - Andrea Bacciu, E. Pasanisi, S. Bacciu (Parma, Italy)
- Bilateral Cochlear Implants Indications, Mapping and Rehabilitation - Sandro Burdo, A. Giuliani, L Dalla Costa, L. Cucinotta (Varese, Italy)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:00 Surgical Dissection Demonstration: Moderator: David Moffat (UK)
Translabyrinthine Transapical (surgeon M. Aristegui, Spain)
vs. Transotic Approach (surgeon T. Somers, Belgium)
FRIDAY, JUNE 18
8:00 - 9:00 Instructional Courses (Session 6)
- Surgical Anatomy of the Jugular Foramen and its Implications in Decision Making - Essam Saleh (Jedda, Saudi Arabia)
- Electroacoustic Stimulation for the Management of Severe Hearing Loss - Alain Uziel (Montpellier, France)
- The Use of Vascularized Flaps in Mastoid Reconstruction - Mattew Yung ( Ipswich, United Kingdom)
- Stapedotomy with Self-Retaining Titanium Clip-Piston - Daniel aWengen (Binningen,Switzerland)
- Partial Deafness Treatment (PDT): Surgical Treatment and Results - Henrik Skarzinski, A. Lorens, M. Zgoda, P.H. Skarzynski (Nadarzyn, Poland)
- "Suprameatal Approach": an Alternative in Cochlear Implantation - Wilko Grolman (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
- The Role of Eustachian Tube in Chronic Otitis Media - John Hamilton (Cheltenham, United Kingdom)
- Use of Cement in Ossiculoplasty - Jean Pierre Souald ( Ottawa, Canada)
9:00 - 10:00 Instructional Courses (Session 7)
- New Perspectives in Management of Temporal Bone Paragangliomas - Giovanni Danesi (Bergamo, Italy)
- Facial Nerve, Landmark in Temporal Bone Surgery - Jacques Magnan ( Marseille, France)
- Vibrant Soundbridge in Sensorineural, Conductive and Mixed Hearing Loss - Christian Streitberger (Merano, BZ, Italy)
- Revision Surgery in Stapedectomy - Gregorio Babighian (Padova, Italy)
- Conductive Hearing Loss with Normal Tympanic Membrane: How to Prevent Misdiagnosis and Unpleasant Surgical Surprises - Erwin Dunnebier ( Zaandams,The Netherlands)
- Versatility of Enlarged Middle Fossa Approach for Skull Base Lesions - Mislav Gjuric ( Zagreb, Croatia)
- Retraction Pockets, When and How to Act? - Ibrahim Hizalan ( Bursa, Turkey) Levent Olgun (Izmir, Turkey)
- Management of External Auditory Canal in Middle Ear Surgery - Alessandra Russo, Lorenzo Lauda (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
10:00 - 11:00 Instructional Courses (Room A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H - Session 8)
- Management of Paraganglioma Tumors: our Experience on over 200 Cases - Mario Sanna, G. De Donato (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Update in Tinnitus Management - Manuela Mazzoli (Padova, Italy)
- On the Origin of the Ear - A Conceptual Approach - Rudi Kuhweide ( Brugge,Belgium)
- Otogenetics: How to come to a Molecolar Diagnosis - Dirk Kunst (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- Cochlear Implant Programming: from Audiology to Artificial Intelligence - Paul Govaerts (Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium)
- Updates on Intratympanic Treatment of Sudden Deafness - Diego Zanetti ( Brescia, Italy), Stefan Plontke (Tuebingen, Germany)
- Genetical Aspects of Hearing - Malou Hultcrantz (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Family Candidacy for Cochlear Implant - Omar Al-Sharif, Ahmed J. Jamal (Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Round Table: Acoustic Neurinoma
Moderator: Jacques Magnan (France) - Faculty: Mislav Gjiuric (Croatia),
Giuseppe Magliulo (Italy), Vincent Darrouzet (France), Roberto Pareschi
(Italy), Yildririm Bayazit (Turkey), AbdelKader Taibah (Italy), Franco
Trabalzini (Italy)
12:30 - 13:30 Round Table: Vertigo
Moderator: Nuri Ozgirgin (Turkey) - Faculty: David Moffat (United Kingdom), Jan Maurer (Germany), Rudolf Probst (Switzerland), Giorgio Guidetti (Italy), Mete Kiroglu (Turkey), Fernando Mancini (Italy)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 ADVANCED BIONICS Lunch Symposium
Moderator: G.Babighian (Italy) - Faculty: P: Govaerts (Belgium), A. Buchner (Germany), J. Frijns (The Netherlands), M. Manrique (Spain), G. Loquet (Switzerland)
15:00 - 16:00 Round Table: Cholesteatoma and Retraction Pockets
Moderator: Erwin Offeciers (Belgium) - Faculty: John Hamilton (United Kingdom), Hassan Wahba (Egypt), Christian Dubreil (France), Giuseppe De Donato (Italy), Carlos Cenjor (Spain),Philippe Romanet (France), Vincenzo Vincenti (Italy)
16:00 - 17:00 Instructional Courses (Session 9)
- Cochlear Implants and Bacterial Meningitis - Rubens Brito (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids - Carlos Cenjor, Carlos Moreira (Madrid, Spain)
- BPPV - Beyond Unilateral Posterior Canal - Daniel Kaplan (Beer Sheva, Israel)
- Totally Implantable Middle Ear Device Esteem (Envoy Medical) - Maurizio Barbara (Roma, Italy)
- Acoustic Neurinoma: our Experience on over 2000 Cases - Abdelkader Taibah, Enrico Piccirillo (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Prelingual Hearing Impairment: Benefits and Guidelines for Etiological and Genetic Investigation - Eva Orzan, F. Trabalzini ( Padova, Italy)
- The Use of Cartilage in Tympanoplasty - Philippe Romanet (Dijon, France)
- Classification and Management of Inner Ear Malformations - Levent Sennaroglu (Ankara,Turkey)
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30 Instructional Courses (Session 10)
- Pre-Operative Imaging in Cochlear Implantation - Paul Merkus (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- BAHA: Indications and Techniques for the Beginner - Claudio Cola (Rimini, Italy), Antonio Caruso (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Vestibular Evaluation made Simple for the Otologist: a Surgeon's Perspective - Badr Mostafa (Nasr City Cairo, Egypt)
- Laser Doppler Vibrometry: A new Tool for the Otologist - Fitzgerald O'Connor (London, United Kingdom)
- Management of Aural Atresia: Auricle Reconstruction and Hearing Restoration - Hella Hajri (Tunis, Tunisia), A. Russo, A. Caruso (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- The Esteem Middle Ear Implant - Marie-Paule Thill (Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Cochlear Implantation in Inner Ear Malformations - Nicolò Frau (Rovereto, TN, Italy
- Management of Jugular Foramen Paragangliomas - R. Mark Wiet (Hinsdale, USA)
18:30 - 19:30 Instructional Courses (Session 11)
- The Role of the Ear Imaging in Cochlear Implantation Surgery - Hassan Wahba (Cairo, Egypt)
- Baha: state of the Art - Emmanuel Mylanus (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
- Clinical Examination of the Dizzy Patient - Daniele Nuti ( Siena, Italy)
- Active Middle Ear Implants in 2009 in Europe and in USA: Further Developments and New Indications - Arnaud Deveze (Marseille, France), Stephane Tringali (Lyon, France), Hermann Jenkins (Denver, CO, USA)
- Surgical and Radiological Anatomy of the Temporal Bone - M. Falcioni, A. Giannuzzi (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
- Management of Major Ear Malformations - Thomas Somers (Antwerp, Belgium)
- Indications and Techniques for Staged Cholesteatoma Surgery - Amir Minovi, Stephan Dazert, (Bochum, Germany)
- Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Prelingual Deaf Children with Severe Inner Ear Malformations - Ahmet Atas, G. Sennaroglu, S. Sevinc, E. Yucel, L. Sennaroglu, S. Sarac, I. Zival (Ankara, Turkey)
20:30 Social Dinner (unformal dressing)
SATURDAY JUNE 19
8:00 - 9:00 Instructional Courses (Session 12)
- Application of Electromagnetic Implants onto the Round Window - Levent Olgun (Izmir, Turkey)
- The Minor's Disease: How to Diagnose and Treat the Dehiscence of the Anterior Semicircular Canal - Vincent Darrouzet (Bordeaux, France)
- Current Status of Local Drug Delivery to the Inner Ear - Stefan Plontke (Tuebingen, Germany)
- Acoustic Neuroma Surgery: Otolaryngological or Neurosurgical Issue? - Franco Trabalzini (Padova, Italy)
- Cholesteatoma Surgery: Results, Influential Factors and Follow-up - Milan Stankovic (Nis, Serbia)
- VBS Surgery for Otosclerosis - Georg Sprinzl (Innsbruck, Austria)
- Ossicular Chain Malformations - Vincenzo Vincenti, F. Di Lella, E. Pasanisi (Parma, Italy)
- Tympanomastoid Surgery for the General Otorhinolaryngologist - Aristides Sismanis (Athens, Greece)
9:00 - 10:00 Instructional Courses (Session 13)
- Total Implantable Middle Ear Prosthesis (Otologics Carina) for Sensorineural and Mixed Hearing Loss - Luca Bruschini (Pisa, Italy)
- Vestibular Function Assessment - Antonio Denia Lafuente (Madrid, Spain)
- Cochlear Implants in Very Young Children: Indications and Surgical Techniques - Antonio Della Volpe ( Napoli, Italy)
- Acoustic Neuroma - Shakeel Saeed ( London, United Kingdom)
- Management of Middle Ear Cholesteatoma with Fistula or Invasion of the Labyrinth. The Parma Experience - Fabio Piazza, Carlo Zini (Parma, Italy)
- Stapes Surgery: Otosclerosis, Primary and Revision Surgery and Congenital Malformations. Rules and Hints - Robert Vincent ( Colombieres, France)
- Surgical Approaches to the Cochlea for the Treatment of Hearing Loss with Implantable Devices - Manuel Manrique (Pamplona, Spain)
- Facial Nerve Rehabilitation - Marco Fontana (Padova, Italy)
10:00 - 11:00 Instructional Courses (Session 14)
- Rehabilitation of Complete Auricular Atresia by Middle Ear Implants - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
- Working Up the Dizzy Patient - Giorgio Guidetti (Modena, Italy)
- Operating Room set-up in Middle Ear and Lateral Skull Base. Course for Beginners - Hiroshi Sunose (Sendai, Japan)
- How to avoid CSF Leak in Lateral Skull Base Surgery - Jeff Mulder, P. Merkus, P. Fois (Nijmegen, The Nederlands)
- Complications in Chronic Otitis Media - Nicola Quaranta, Antonio Quaranta (Bari, Italy)
- Experiences with Different Self-Crimping Prostheses in Stapes Surgery - Joachim Hornung (Erlangen, Germany)
- Cholesteatoma and Middle Ear Underaeration Diseases - From Pathophysiology Via Surgical Techniques - Michal Luntz (Haifa, Israel)
- Neuro-otological Features of Benign Paroxismal Vertigo and Benign Paroxismal Positional Vertigo in Children: a Follow-Up Study - V. Marcelli (Naples, Italy)
11:00 - 18:00 Satellite Symposium: Rehabilitation of Deaf Children in Auditory
Implants (for audiologists and speech pathologists) Faculty: A. Barbot, P. Benincasa, M.T. Breghent, P. Cippone, A. De Filippis, M. Dejana, N.
Garbini, P. Steffan
- The Defilippis Cognitive-Oralistic Methodin the Rehabilitation of Deaf Children with and without Asssociated Disorders - Adriana De Filippis (Milan, Italy)
- Evaluation and Rehabilitation Paths in Patients with Cochlear Implants affected with Complex Clinical Pictures (Percorsi Valutativi e Riabilitativi in Pazienti con Quadri Clinici Complessi, portatori di Impianto Cocleare) - Anna Barbot, Maria Teresa Breghent, Paola Benincasa (Parma, Italy)
- Brain Stem Implants: Clinical Indications, Cases Observation, Speech-TherapyRehabilitation (Impianti al Tronco:Indicazioni Cliniche, Osservazione dei Casi e Riabilitazione Logopedica) - Monica Deiana (Parma, Italy)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Round Table: Lateral Skull Base
Moderator: Mario Sanna (Italy) - Faculty: Jacques Magnan (France), Miguel Aristegui (Spain), Patrice Tran Ba Huy (France), Giovanni Danesi (Italy), Roberto Pareschi (Italy), Essam Saleh (Egypt), R. Mark Wiet (USA)
12:30 - 13:30 Round Table: Tympanoplasty and Ossicular Reconstruction
Moderator: Michel Gersdorff (Belgium) - Faculty: Klaus Jahnkhe (Germany), JP Souald (Ottawa, Canada), Amir Minovi (Germany), Rudolf Haeusler (Switzerland), Aristides Sismanis (Greece), Toshimistsu Kobayashi (Japan)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch Surgical Dissection Demonstration: Moderator Nuri Ozgirgin
(Turkey)
Canal Wall Down (Surgeon K. Jahnke, Germany) vs. Canal Wall Up Tympanoplasty (Surgeon J. Magnan, France)
15:00 - 16:00 Round Table: Stapes Surgery
Moderator: Robert Vincent (France) - Faculty: Ibrahim Hizalam (Turkey), Joachim Hornung (Germany), Thomas Somers (Belgium), Gregorio Babighian (Italy), Milan Profant (Slovak Republic), Alessandra Russo (Italy)
16:00 - 16:30 Closing Remarks
JOINT MEETINGIV CONSENSUS
IN AUDITORY IMPLANTS
Presidents: Salvatore Bacciu MD, Mario Sanna MD
V EAONO INSTRUCTIONAL WOEKSHOP
President: Angel Ramos MD
VENUE: Parma (Italy), June 16-19, 2010 - AUDITORIUM - CENTRO POLIFUNZIONALE
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS OF PARMA, Parco Area delle Scienze, Via Usberti 59/B 43100 – Parma - Italy
REGISTRATIONS: www.consensusimplantseaono.it Registration fees starting at € 348
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PRE-CONGRESS LIVE SURGERY
Venue: Gruppo Otologico - Via Emmanueli 42, Piacenza (Italy)
When: Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Live surgery in cochlear implants , middle ear implants and auditory brainstem implants in three simultaneous operating rooms (6 to 8 implants operations performed by international Faculty)
Complete interactivity with the international Faculty of Surgeons.
ONLY 60 places available.
Registrations: accepted on a first come first served basis
go to www.consensusimplantseaono.eu for further informations and registrations
TEMPORAL BONE DISSECTION COURSE
Venue: At the Gruppo Otologico Temporal Bone Laboratory - Piacenza (Italy)
When: Every day June 16 - 18
Time schedule: First session 9.00am - 1.00pm Second Session 2 :00pm – 6:00pm
(14 places per session).
Registration fee: 200€ - Includes: transportation from Parma and back, temporal bone laboratory facilities, one full temporal bone, snacks).
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