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Study of Sound and Speech Perception in New Cochlear Implanted Subjects Using or Not an Anatomy-based Fitting

NCT ID: NCT05230498

Last Updated: 2024-12-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

17 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-02-15

Study Completion Date

2024-11-15

Brief Summary

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Main objective:

Compare the recognition of environmental sounds with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Secondary objectives:

Compare speech recognition in quiet with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting in adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Compare speech recognition in noise with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting in adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Detailed Description

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Introduction: Cochlear implantation allows the rehabilitation of profound bilateral deafness, restoring speech perception and verbal communication when the traditional hearing aid no longer provides satisfactory hearing gain. A cochlear implant includes an electrode array and its functioning is based on the principle of cochlear tonotopy: each electrode encodes a frequency spectrum according to its position in the cochlea (high frequencies are assigned to the basal electrodes and low frequencies to the apical electrodes). The cochlear implant thus breaks down the frequency spectrum into a number of frequency bands via bandpass filters corresponding to the number of electrodes in the implant. During the fitting these bands can be modified by the audiologist. The fitting software developed by the manufacturers proposed a default fitting with a lower limit between 100 and 250 Hz according to the brands and an upper limit of about 8500 Hz. The frequency bands assigned to each electrode follow a logarithmic scale with the high frequencies for the basal electrodes and the low frequencies for the apical electrodes. This distribution takes into account the number of active electrodes but does not take into account the anatomy and the natural cochlear tonotopy specific to each patient. Several studies have analyzed the anatomical variations of the cochlear dimensions: size of the cochlea and the ratio between the contact surfaces of the electrodes with the cochlea are variable from one patient to another. The insertion depth during surgery is also variable due to parameters related to the patients as well as to the operator, which seems to impact the understanding of speech in noise. Mathematical algorithms have recently been developed to estimate the cochlear tonotopy of each patient from a CT scan assessment. CT imaging of the implanted ear combined with 3D reconstruction software, provides cochlear length measurements Using this approach it is possible to measure the position of each electrode relative to the cochlear apex. Recently, MED-EL (Austria) has developed a new approach based on CT-scan and tuning of the frequencies associated with each electrode using anatomical information of position of the electrodes in the cochlea: this fitting is called anatomy-based fitting.

Main objective:

Compare the recognition of environmental sounds with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Secondary objectives:

Compare speech recognition in quiet with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting in adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Compare speech recognition in noise with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting in adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.

Plan of the study:

It is a prospective open monocentric randomized crossover study: measures will be done on the patient at 6 weeks and 12 weeks post-activation.

Conditions

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Bilateral

Keywords

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cochlear implant strategy anatomy-based fitting

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Two arms A and B:

Arm A: patient's fitting with default fitting --\> 6 weeks use --\> tests and patient's fitting with anatomy-based fitting --\> 6 weeks use --\> tests Arm B: patient's fitting with anatomy-based fitting --\> 6 weeks use --\> tests and patient's fitting with default fitting --\> 6 weeks use --\> tests
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Investigators
Double blind study: the patient and the investigator don't know the fitting.

Study Groups

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Cochlear Implant (CI) with default fitting then anatomy-based fitting

Cochlear Implant with default fitting first during 6 weeks then with anatomy-based fitting during 6 weeks

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

default fitting then anatomy-based fitting

Intervention Type DEVICE

Cochlear implant with anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Cochlear Implant (CI) with anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Cochlear Implant with anatomy-based fitting during 6 weeks then with default fitting during 6 weeks

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Intervention Type DEVICE

Cochlear implant with anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Interventions

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anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Cochlear implant with anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Intervention Type DEVICE

default fitting then anatomy-based fitting

Cochlear implant with anatomy-based fitting then default fitting

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patient (\>= 18 years old) speaking French
* Patient who fulfils the criteria for cochlear implantation

Exclusion Criteria

* retro-cochlear pathology: auditory neuropathy, vestibular schwannoma
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geräte GesmbH

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Damien Bonnard, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Bordeaux

Locations

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CHU

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

Other Identifiers

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MEDEL_anatfit_Bordeaux_study

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id