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Original Article

Evaluation of cochlear implant benefit with auditory cortical evoked potentials: Evaluación de los beneficios del implante coclear por medio de potenciales evocados auditivos corticales

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Pages 429-435 | Received 27 Nov 2001, Accepted 13 Feb 2002, Published online: 07 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Endogenous P300 and exogenous slow vertex potentials were obtained with tone and speech stimuli in a group of five children using a cochlear implant (CI) with poor speech recognition (group A) and compared with those from another group of five children using a CI with good speech recognition (group B). The responses were also compared to those of children with normal hearing (n = 14) and a group of adult CI users (n = 9). N1 and P2 latencies of CI group A and group B were prolonged compared to those of normally-hearing children. In group A, P300 was present when contrasts with tone stimuli were used. When speech stimuli were used, P300 potentials were absent or delayed. P300 potentials obtained in group B were no different from those obtained in normally-hearing children. It is suggested that the poor results evoked with speech stimuli in contrast to those evoked with pure-tone stimuli in group A are due to the immaturity of (sub) cortical generators associated with acoustical and phonetic processing. In contrast to the children in group B, all children in group A suffered from congenital deafness.

Sumario

Se compararon los potenciales endógenos P300 y los potenciales exógenos lentos del vértex con estímulos tonales y de lenguaje en dos grupos diferentes. El grupo A estaba conformado por cinco niños con implante coclear, con pobre discriminación del lenguaje. El grupo B igual-mente conformado por cinco niños, pero con buena discriminación del lenguaje. Las respuestas también fueron comparadas con las de niños con audición normal (n = 14) y con un grupo de adultos con implante coclear (n = 9). Las latencias de N1 y P2 estaban prolongadas en los grupos A y B en comparación con las de los niños normoyentes. En el grupo A, la P300 se presentó cuando se utilize contraste con el estimulo tonal. Cuando se utilizó estímulo lingüístico la P300 estuvo ausente o retrasada. Los potenciales obtenidos en el grupo B no mostraron diferencia con aquellos obtenidos en niños normoyentes. Se piensa que la inmadurez de los generadores (sub) corticales asociados con el procesamiento fonético y acústico, son la causa de los pobres resultados obtenidos con el estímulo lingüístico que con-trastan con los resultados obtenidos al estimular con tonos puros. A diferencia de los niños del grupo B, la sordera de los niños en el grupo A era congenita.

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