Free Papers

FREE PAPER PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16

9:30 - 10:30

Room 1 - Chairmen: D. Cuda (Italy), G. Jablonski (Norway)

  1. Comparison of round window and cochleostomy approaches for hearing preservation: Analysis using computational structures technology - Kozo Kumukawa (Tokio, Japan)
  2. New trends with cochlear implants and implication for the electrode design - ClaudeJolly (Innsbruck, Austria)
  3. Significance of hearing preservation with deep electrode insertion - Claude Jolly (Innsbruck,Austria)
  4. The Round Window Revisited: the Natural Way for Cochlear Implants Roberto Angeli (Piacenza, Italy)
  5. Case Report: Hearing Preservation with a Cocjhlear Implant in a Patient Affected by Partial Deafness -Domenico Cuda (Piacenza, Italy)
  6. 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)

  1. The Netherlands) Decision making in advanced otosclerosis: cochIear implantation when and how? AFC De Cock (Amsterdam.The Netherlands)
  2. Dutch Cochlear Implant Group (CI-ON) consensus protocol on postmeningitis hearing evaluation and treatment - Paul Merkus (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  3. Cochlear Implantation in Children with Cerebral Palsy - A. Bacciu, P. Fois, MT. Breghenti (Parma, Italy)
  4. Cochlear Implants in Hemosiderosis - Andrea De Vito (Pisa, Italy)
  5. Cochlear implantation for Usher syndrome type II - Jussi Jero (Turku, Finland)
  6. Cochlear Implant in a Common Cavity Case - Walter Livi (Siena, Italy)

Room 3 - Chairmen: E. Pasanisi (Italy), J. Mulder (The Netherlands)

  1. Cochlear Implantation programme in the Kingdom of Bahrain Review of 70 cases - Ahmed Jamal (Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain)
  2. Experience on Cochlear Implants - Vassiliki Paliobei (Tessaloniki, Greece)
  3. Universal newborn hearing screening in Clinical Center Nis and cochlear implantation (CI) - Mila Bojanovic (Nis, Serbia)
  4. Evaluation of Med-El CI implanted children in East Algeria - Samia Labassi (Bordeaux, France)
  5. Results of cochlear Implantation in pre-lingually deaf adults - Jeff Mulder (Nijmegen, The Nederlands)
  6. 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)

  1. Benefits of Cochlear Implants in Children with Multi/Handicaps - F. Forli (Pisa, Italy)
  2. 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)
  3. Automatic and outcome-driven expert fitting: a new approach to program cochlear implants - Paul Govaerts (Antwerp-Deurne, Belgium)
  4. Music Perception in Everyday Life - Subjective Rating of Users of different Cochlear Implant Generations - Doris Adams (Hannover, Germany)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)

  1. DUET 2: the Second Generation of EAS Processors - Results from a DUET to DUET 2 Upgrade Study - Martin Eislende (Innsbruck, Austria)
  2. Towards better noise robustness in Cochlear Implants - J.H.M. Frijns (Leiden,The Netherlands)
  3. Speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise for patients using a Digisonic® SP Binaural cochlear implant system - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
  4. Binaural Digisonic SP cochlear implant : clinical results - Erik Truy (Lyon, France)
  5. Champions profile for evaluation of paediatric cochlear implant users with complex needs – European retrospective study - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)
  6. Champions Evaluation Scales for Paediatric CI Users with Additional Disabilities - Hermannova Dagmar (Prague, Czech Republic)

Room 6 - Chairmen: B. Gunduz (Turkey), G. Sprinzl (Austria)

  1. Vibrant Soundbridge. Classical and New Indications - Pedro Claros (Barcelona, Spain)
  2. Round window implantation of the FMT of the VIBRANT SOUNDBRIDGE in problematic ears - Jan Maurer (Koblenz, Germany)
  3. VIBRANT SOUND BRIDGE MED-EL: Indications and Results - Giuseppe Lai (Iglesias, Ca, Italy)
  4. Intraoperative Measurements are necessary for VSB surgery? - Georg Sprinzl (Innsbruck, Austria)
  5. Preliminary Results of placing Floating Mass Transducers (FMT) on the Middle Ear Windows - Bulent Gunduz (Ankara, Turkey)
  6. 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)

  1. The BAHA Devices Indications and Techniques - Maurizio Amadori ( Padova, Italy)
  2. BAHA Indications and Results - Claudio Cola (Rimini, Italy)
  3. BAHA or MedEl Vibrant Soundbridge : results and criteria of decision - Olivier Deguine (Toulouse, France)
  4. Saloon Doors: A new technique for BAHA surgery - Daniel aWengen (Binningen, Switzerland)
  5. Upgrade from BAHA to vibrant sound bridge - Tommaso Sorrentino (Toulouse, France)
  6. Middle Ear Implants in Otosclerosis - Nicolò Frau (Rovereto, TN, Italy)

Room 8 - Chairmen: T. Kobayashi (Japan), B. Mostafa (Egypt)

  1. Cancer of temporal bone: reported on 30 patients - Shujiro Minami (Tokyo, Japan)
  2. SDHAF2 (PGL2) and hereditary head and neck paraganglioma - Dirk Kunst (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  3. The Keyhole Retrosigmoid approach to the CPA : indications and technical modifications - Badr Mostafa (Nasr City Cairo, Egypt)
  4. Bioactive Glass in Skull Bone Trauma with CSF-leaks - Kalle Aitasalo (Turku, Finland)
  5. Different cases of postoperative facial palsy - Kensaku Hasegawa (Yonago, Japan)
  6. 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)

  1. Frequency of otosurgical procedures and its 1-year results related to middle ear pressure dysregulation - Jannick Bertelsen (Aalborg, Denmark)
  2. Incidence of middle ear cholesteatoma, locations, extensions, and complications during 1993 to 2009 - F. Nieland (Aalborg, Denmark)
  3. Our experience of intraoperative use of Mitomycin C for prevention of recurrent external ear canal stenosis - Lev Schlizerman (Afula, Israel)
  4. THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES ON REHABILITATION OF HEARING-IMPAIRED CHILDREN WITH AND WITHOUT COCHLEAR IMPLANT - Snezana Ristic (Nis, Serbia)
  5. Prevention and Management of Facial Palsy - Giuseppe Magliulo (Roma, Italy)
  6. The Retrolabyrinthine Approach in the Management of CPA Tumors and Meniere’s Disease - Vincent Darrouzet (Bordeaux, France)

11:00 - 12:00

Room 1- Chairmen: F. Achena (Italy), D. Kaplan (Israel)

  1. The Bony Bridge Down-Up Approach: A New Surgical Procedure to Secure Cochlear and Middle Ear Implants - Francesco Achena (Iglesias, CA, Italy)
  2. Advanced Bionics’ minimally traumatic electrode array: temporal bone experiments with a 3-D force measurement system - Filliep Vanpoucke (Nile, Belgium)
  3. Hearing preservation in Partial Deafnes Treatment by using a new electrode SRA - Monica Matusiak (Warsaw, P{oland)
  4. Surgical Experience with the Neurelec cochlear Implants - Thierry Mom (Clermont Ferrand, France)
  5. Bilateral Cochlear Implants - Emmanuel Mylanus (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
  6. Results of the new Behind-the-ear Processor Harmony with the First Generation of Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant Systems - Martina Brendel (Hannover, Germany)

Room 2- Chairmen: N. Quaranta (Italy), L. Sennaroglu (Turkey)

  1. Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Children with Severe Inner Ear Malformations and Cochlear Nerve Aplasia - Levent Sennaroglu (Ankara, Turkey)
  2. Retrolabyrinthinne approach for surgical placement of auditory brainstem implants in children - Ricardo Ferreira Bento (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
  3. Surgical Challenges in Cochlear Implantation - Shakeel Saeed (London, United Kingdom)
  4. Cochlear Implants in Challenging Cases - Nicola Quaranta (Bari, Italy)
  5. Cochlear Implantation as treatment for single-sided deafness - Andrea Kleine Punte (Antwerp, Belgium)
  6. Cochlear Implantation and Contralateral Auditory Brainstem Implantation - AR Sinnathuray (Marseille, France)

Room 3 - Chairmen: A. Tani (Italy), G. Wenzel (Germany)

  1. Evaluation of Pre-processing Algorithms of Hearing Aids in the Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant System - T. Rottmann (Hannover, Germany)
  2. Measure of loudness growth in cochlear implants recipients - Giorgio Lilli (Naples, Italy)
  3. Speech Discriminatiom in Implanted Patients under Different Competition Modalities - Andrea Tani (Bergamo, Italy)
  4. Long term results of cohlear implantation during the first year of life - Domenico Cuda (Piacenza, Italy)
  5. Clinical Outcomes of Cochlear Reimplantation - M. Ishikawa (Fukui City, Fukui, Japan)
  6. Benefits of Cochlear Implantation for Unilateral Deaf Patients with Ipsilateral Tinnitus - Gentiana Wenzel (Hannover, Germany)

Room 4 - Chairmen: E. Cassandro (Italy), D. Gazibegovic (Germany)

  1. Music evaluation in adult users of HiRes® 120 and previous generations of Advanced Bionics® sound coding strategies - Dzemal Gazibegovic (Hannover, Germany)
  2. Fitting to Outcomes eXpert (FOX®): Preliminary results of the multicentric study in adults - Dzemal Gazibegovic (Hannover, Germany)
  3. Self-assessment and Habits of Cochlear Implant Users at School and Education - Doris Adams (Hannover, Germany)
  4. The effect of pre-operative developmental delay on speech intelligibility of children with cochlear implant - Harukazu Hirauami (Kyoto, Japan)
  5. Evaluation of the Fitting Assistant FOX® - “Fitting to Outcomes eXpert” - Martina Brendel (Hannover, Germany)
  6. 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)

  1. Performance with the OPUS 2 processor remains uncompromised in roving-level speech - Nopp P, Schleich P, Meister D, Möltner A, Zierhofer C, Brill S, Müller J
  2. MUSICAL INTERVALS DISCRIMINATION WITH HIGH RESOLUTION COCHLEAR IMPLANTS - Tani A., Patelli I., Danesi G. (Bergamo, Italy)
  3. Demographic Factors Influencing Educational Placement of Hearing-Impaired Children with a Cochlear Implant - Noam Yehudai (Haifa, Israel)
  4. Consensus on a Cochlear Coordinate System Applicable in Histological, Physiological and Radiological Studies of the Human Cochlea - J.H.M. Frijns (Liden, The Netherlands)
  5. New data collection for C. I. fitting improvement - L. Todini (Milan, Italy)
  6. Performance of young children first fitted with HiRes 120®  - S. Niemczyk (Warsaw, Poland)

    Room 6 - C. Streitberger (Italy), A. Deveze (France)

    1. Elecrtr-Mechanical Stimulation through the Cochlear Windows with the Vibrant Soundbridge (VBS) - Christian Streitberger (Merano, Italy)
    2. VSB Surgery and Aural Atresia - Georg Sprinzl (Innsbruck, Austria)
    3. Vibrant Soundbridge Implantation: Audiologic and Subjective Benefits in Quiet and Noisy Environments - Jean-Philippe Van Damme (Louvain, Belgium) Bilateral
    4. Results of the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) Fixed to the Stapes or Round Window Niche - Jeff Mulder (Nijmegen, The Nederlands)
    5. MRI Safety of the Vibrant Soundbridge - Ingo Todt (Berlin, Germany)
    6. 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)

    1. Active Middle Ear Implants: a Simplified Surgical Approach with the Semi-implantable Middle Ear Transducer from Otologics - Stephane Tringali (Lyon, France)
    2. Surgical Topics for Middle Ear Implants - Fitzgerald O’Connor (London, United Kingdom)
    3. 3rd Window Stimulation Directly to the Cochlea: Output Determination of the Direct Acoustical Cochlea Stimulator Partial Implant (DACS PI) - H. Maier (Lonay, Switzerland)
    4. Linguistic issues in candidacy criteria of electric acoustic stimulation method - Kozo Kumukawa (Tokio, Japan)
    5. Audiological results in patients using the Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) - V Koci (Innsbruck, Austria)
    6. The sex hormone levels in the patients with vestibular disorders - Katarzyna Pawlak- Osinska (Bydgoszcz, Poland)

    Room 8 - Chairmen: S. Kanzaki (Japan), H. Sunose (Japan)

    1. Sporadic unilateral vestibular schwannoma in pediatric patients - Yashuiro Inoue (Tokio, Japan)
    2. Acoustic neuroma and controlateral sudden hearing loss - A. Karkas (Grenoble, France)
    3. Spontaneous Tegmen Defects associated with Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence - Traik Elhadi (Toulouse, France)
    4. Stapedectomy in Sheep. An animal model for surgical training - A. Cordero (Madrid, Spain)
    5. Significant correlation between audiogram and perioperative testing ossicular mobility in otosclerosis patients - Sho Kanzaki (Tokyo, Japan)
    6. Results of inverse stapedotomy using manual perforator - N. Arsovic (Belgrade, Serbia)

    12:00 - 13:00 Free Paper

    Room 1- Chairmen: T. Sorrentino (Italy), P. Romanet (France)

    1. Cochlear Implantation in Very Young Children - Hensen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    2. The Binaural Cochlear Implant: Preliminary Results - Philippe Romanet (Dijon, France)
    3. Functional evaluation of atraumatic electrode insertion in cochlear implantations - Tommaso Sorrentino (Toulouse, France)
    4. Cochlear Implantation at Casa di Cura San Camillo - Massimo Magnani (Forte dei Marmi, Italy)
    5. Surgical Complications in 455 Cochlear Implantation - Leal Aquiles (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
    6. Complications Following Cochlear Implants in Adults - G. Stamatiou (Athens, Greece)

    Room 2 - Chairmen: A. Taibah (Italy), R. Brito (Brazil)

    1. Cochlear Implant in the Management of Vestibular Schwannoma in the Only Hearing Ear - Abdelkader Taibah (Piacenza, Italy)
    2. Auditory Brainstem Implants - Shakeel Saeed (London, United Kingdom)
    3. Indications and Contraindications in ABI - Mario Sanna (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
    4. Simoultaneus Fast ABR and CNAP in Decision Making in Cochlear Implantation vs. ABI - Enrico Piccirillo (Piacenza and Rome, Italy)
    5. Results of Brain Stem Implants on 3 Cases of Cochlear Nerve Aplasia - Jacques Magnan (Marseille, France)
    6. Surgical complications in ABI placement in children and adults - Rubens Brito (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

    Room 3 - Chairmen: V. Achilli (Italy), I. Todt (Germany)

    1. How to connect a Mobile Phone to a Cochlear Implant? - T. Rottmann (Hannover, Germany)
    2. Cochlear Implant Patients - Vestibular Function Testing in Comparison with Flat Panel CT Imaging - Karl Friedrik Nordfalk (Oslo, Norway)
    3. Static posturography with interactive balance system analysis in patients with cochlear implants - Federica Di Berardino (Milan, Italy)
    4. Influence of Cochlear Implantation on the Vestibular System - Ingo Todt (Berlin, Germany)
    5. Vestibular function following Cochlear Implantation - E Ionescu (Lyon, France)
    6. 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)

    1. NRT over-threshold responses in subjects with cochlear implants Nucleus CI24/RE- Costantino De Palma (Messina, Italy)
    2. Speech understanding and subjective assessment after upgrade of the speech processor from Medel Tempo+ to Opus2 - Martin Kompis (Bern, Switzerland)
    3. Music evaluation in adult users of HiRes® 120 and previous generations of Advanced Bionics® sound coding strategies - Laure Arnold (Rixheim, France)
    4. Varese Mapping System - L. Dalla Costa (Varese, Italy)
    5. Rehabilitation of Cochlear Implants in Adults - L. Cucinotta (Varese, Italy)
    6. Phoneme Listening and Auditory Memory in Cochlear Implanted Children - Mikic Branka (Belgrade, Serbia)

    Room 5 - Chairmen: D. Zanetti (Italy), A. Incesulu (Turkey)

    1. The change in hearing level and growth rate of acoustic neuromas in wait and scan policy - T. Watabe (Tokyo, Japan)
    2. Critical Issues and Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation in Bilingual Deaf Children - Diego Zanetti (Brescia, Italy)
    3. Direct Drive Fitting Study - Millo Beltrame (Rovereto, TN, Italy)
    4. Electric+Acoustic Stimulatiom for Treatment of Partially Deafened Patients: Our Results - Francesco Achena (Iglesias, CA, Italy)
    5. The Safety of Eliminating the Middle Ear: a Report of 51 Consecutive Cases in 19 Months - Carlos Martin Oviedo (Madrid, Spain)
    6. Vestibular Rehabilitation - Armagan Incesulu (Ankara, Turkey)

    Room 6 - Chairmen: L. Bruschini (Italy), H. Jenkins (USA)

    1. Comparative Study of the Hearing Quality between the Fourth and the Last Generation of Audioprocessors for Vibrant Soundbridge Implant - Luca Bruschini (Pisa, Italy)
    2. Objective Measurements with Vibrant Soundbridge - Maurizio Perotti (Tortona, Italy)
    3. 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)
    4. Rehabilitation of Mastoid Cavity Combining Canaloplasty and Carina Implant - Arnaud Deveze (Marseille, France)
    5. US Phase II Clinical Trials of the Otologics Fully Implantable METTM Hearing System - Herman Jenkins (Denver, CO, USA)
    6. Vertigo as a presenting symptom for otosclerosis - Vedat Topsakal (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

    Room 7- Chairmen: J. Magnan (France), M. Gaihede (Denmark)

    1. Outcomes of the ClearVoiceTM Evaluation in Adults - Nathalie Mathias (Rixheim, France)
    2. Middle Ear Implantats Long Term Follow-Up - Jacques Magnan (Marseille, France)
    3. Electromechanic Active Middle ear implants: the best way to achieve stability of the transducer in oval and round windows - A. Lowi Benoliel (Madrid, Spain)
    4. Active Middle Ear Implants. New Indications and Surgical Procedures - Manuel Manrique (Pamplona, Spain)
    5. Vibroplasty in conductive or mixed hearing loss - Daniele Bernadeschi (Paris, France)
    6. 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)

    1. The preliminary study of thinly sliced cartilage for reconstruction of canal wall and tympanic membrane - Hiroaki Yazama,M.D., Kensaku Hasegawa,M.D., Yasuomi Kunimoto,M.D., Daizou Taguchi,M.D., Hiroya Kitano,M.D. (Japan)
    2. Consent for Mastoidectomy:A Patient’s Perspective - Dimitar Marev (Varna, Bulgaria)
    3. Hearing preservation in patients with labyrinthine fistula - Anamaria Gocea (Barcelona, Spain)
    4. Hearing prognosis in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody associated vasculitis syndrome - Hiroaki Yazama (Yonago, Japan)
    5. Retro-conchal incision: a novel approach for the treatment of chonic otitis media - Giannantonio Bertoli (Rome, Italy)
    6. Management of Hearing in the Irradiated Ears - Michael Tong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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