A Case Series of Paediatric Hearing Preservation Cochlear
Implantation: A New Treatment Modality for Children with Drug-
Induced or Congenital Partial Deafness Audiology and
Neurotology, 06/29/2012 Exclusive author commentary Kuthubutheen
J et al. – Hearing preservation cochlear implantation is a new
effective modality in children with partial deafness. Jafri
Kuthubutheen (07/24/2012) comments: As the indications for
cochlear implantation continue to widen, we present a series of
children with partial deafness in which there is preservation of
low frequency hearing but loss of high frequency hearing. This
pattern of hearing loss is also known as a "ski slope" pattern
on the audiogram. High frequencies are important in that it
contains a lot of the information of speech. Cochlear
implantation techniques in this situation requires a technique
in which the patient's residual hearing is preserved.