Cochlear Implantation in a Patient with Failed Renal Transplant: A Case Report

Cochlear Implantation in a Patient with Failed Renal Transplant: A Case Report

Cochlear implantation has become a standard tool of management of severe to profound hearing loss. Cochlear implantation in patients with chronic renal failure who are on hemodialysis are at greater risk of complications intraoperatively and postoperatively. Very few cases of cochlear implantation h...

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Veröffentlicht in:Indian journal of otolaryngology, and head, and neck surgery and head, and neck surgery, 2019-11, Vol.71 (Suppl 2), p.1439-1441
Hauptverfasser: Raghavendra, K. S., Dutt, Sunil Narayan, Maneesh, S. G., Hasan, Suhel, Gaur, Sumit Kumar, Kumar, Apurva
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Case reports
Clinical Report
Cochlear implants
Exceptional children
Head and Neck Surgery
Hemodialysis
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Otorhinolaryngology
Speech
Transplants & implants
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Zusammenfassung:Cochlear implantation has become a standard tool of management of severe to profound hearing loss. Cochlear implantation in patients with chronic renal failure who are on hemodialysis are at greater risk of complications intraoperatively and postoperatively. Very few cases of cochlear implantation have been reported in the English literature so far following renal transplantation. Herein we report a case of cochlear implantation in a 37 year old lady with post renal transplant failure who is on maintenance hemodialysis.
ISSN:2231-3796
0973-7707
DOI:10.1007/s12070-018-1527-9