PURPOSE: to know the audiologic profile of users and non-users of HA contralateral to the CI in at HCFMUSP METHODS: Eighteen adult, post-lingual patients were evaluated, who met the settled criteria, answering the question "Do you use or have used HA in a contralateral ear of a CI. The analysis of tonal point mean was conducted in 18 patients. RESULTS: the patients of the Coclear Implant Group of the Division of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine of the University of Sâo Paulo, who do not use HA contralateral to the CI, have residual profile in average of 122.5 dB. The patients who benefit from the use of HA associated with the CI have residual profile in an average of 101.25 dB. CONCLUSION: nonusers of contralateral HA have residual hearing clinic, significantly worse than the patients who use contralateral HA associated with CI in the Division of Otolaryngology, HCFMUSP.
Cochlear Implantation; Hearing Aids; Hearing Loss
