Demographics
Between the years 2007 and 2017, 191 patients aged 9 months to 17 years
(mean 3.54 years), underwent 213 procedures, accounting for 260 cochlear
implants at SUMC. Of these, 69 procedures (32%) were simultaneous
bilateral cochlear implants. Etiology was y hereditary in 80%; two
patients were operated for post-meningitis deafness; four procedures
were for inner-ear congenital malformations (2 for incomplete partition
type and 2 with an enlarged vestibular aqueduct). Of all
procedures,
88 were performed on males (41%) and 125 on females (59%). One hundred
procedures were performed on Bedouin Arab patients (63%) and 72 on no
Bedouin (usually Jewish)
patients (34%).
Demographic and clinical characteristics are summarized inTable 1 .
Patients with IOHversus
patients without IOH
Out of 213 procedures, 10 patients developed IOH and the rest were
defined as belonging to the non–intra-operative hyperthermia (NIOH)
group. No significant differences were observed between the
groups
in as far as age, gender, ethnicity, number of CI surgeries (one versus
more than one), or the cause of deafness
(Table 1 ).