Neural response telemetry: evaluation of the auditory nerve compound action potential in children / Telemetria de respostas neurais: avaliação do potencial de ação composto do nervo auditivo em crianças

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2007

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INTRODUCTION: In Cochlear Implant (CI) users, the recording of the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) of the auditory nerve represents the most effective way to assess the auditory nerve in response to electrical stimulus and the interaction between the electrode and the neural tissue. Changes in neural responses, over time, have direct implication in mappings of children, mainly during the first months of CI use. OBJECTIVE: To study ECAP in children during the first year of CI use. Through Telemetry of Neural Responses, the ECAP characteristics have been analyzed in 13 children. The children who were implanted were younger than three years old. RESULTS: During the first year of CI use there was a significant statistical growth for the amplitude of N1 peak, in basal electrodes, between the second and third returns. There were not any significant differences obtained for N1 peak latency, neither for the slope nor for p-NRT, among the returns. The analysis among the electrodes has shown that the apical ones have presented higher N1 amplitudes and p-NRT values, statistically lower than the thresholds of apical electrodes. Responses with Ia type morphology have prevailed for electrodes E10, E15 and E20, and Ic type for electrode E5. In the first return, recovery time of the refractory state of the auditory nerve was in most subjects equals to 1000 Mius for E5, and equals to 2000 Mius for electrodes E5, E10 and E15. In the third return, recovery time of E5 increased to 2000 Mius and in E20 decreased to 1000 Mius, in most subjects. The comparison of the different models has shown that the Cochlear Implant N24 R (CS) has presented the highest amplitudes, the highest slopes and the lowest latencies, and the lowest p-NRT values. CONCLUSION: During the first year of CI use, the electrical stimulation released by intracochlear electrodes did not cause significant changes of ECAP characteristics, except in the increase of N1 peak amplitude.

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cochlear implantation eletrofisiologia electrophysiology child. criança. implante coclear cochlear nerve nervo coclear

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