Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil

Bento, Ricardo Ferreira

doi:10.1016/j.bjorl.2015.05.005

Dear Editor,

I would like to congratulate BJORL for the excellent editorial published in issue 81, number 2, by Prof. Dr. Pedro Mangabeira Albernaz on the history of cochlear implants in Brazil.¹1. Albernaz PL. History of cochlear implants. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:124-5.

Professor Pedro Mangabeira was the pioneer in this technique in our country, having been honored at the last Ibero-American Congress of Cochlear Implants.

It so happens that in the Editorial, I do not know whether due to lack of space, something of extreme historical importance was omitted: the initiative, in 1990, to manufacture in Brazil the first national cochlear implant, developed entirely in the Bioengineering Department of Instituto do Coração (the Heart Institute) of HCFMUSP, with the cooperation of the FMUSP Otorhinolaryngology Discipline, which won an award at the time from the Inter-American Development Bank as the best scientific project of 1989. The first work about it was published in this respected journal, the Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology.²2. Bento RF, Miniti A, Leiner A, Sanchez TG, Oshiro MS, Campos MIM, et al. O implante coclear FMUSP-1: apresentação de umprograma brasileiro e seus resultados preliminares. Rev BrasOtorrinolaringol. 1994;60:1-16.

Two patents were generated based on these works and several patients were successfully implanted (Patent INPI no. 910.5546-6; on 12/16/1991).³3. Bento R.F. Implante Coclear com transmissão ótica atravésda membrana timpânica. Brasil patente BR 910.5546-6; 1991,December 16.

The researchers involved in this project were Ricardo Ferreira Bento, Aroldo Miniti, Adolpho Leiner, Carlos Alberto Nunes, Milton Oshiro, Maria Valéria Goffi Gomes.

Only five countries have developed cochlear implant devices, including Brazil with this device. The latter is cited in more than 1000 publications on CI around the world as a pioneer in its concepts.

References

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Albernaz PL. History of cochlear implants. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:124-5.
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Bento RF, Miniti A, Leiner A, Sanchez TG, Oshiro MS, Campos MIM, et al. O implante coclear FMUSP-1: apresentação de umprograma brasileiro e seus resultados preliminares. Rev BrasOtorrinolaringol. 1994;60:1-16.
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Bento R.F. Implante Coclear com transmissão ótica atravésda membrana timpânica. Brasil patente BR 910.5546-6; 1991,December 16.

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☆Please cite this article as: Bento RF. Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:576.

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[1] ¹
Albernaz PL. History of cochlear implants. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:124-5.

[2] ²
Bento RF, Miniti A, Leiner A, Sanchez TG, Oshiro MS, Campos MIM, et al. O implante coclear FMUSP-1: apresentação de umprograma brasileiro e seus resultados preliminares. Rev BrasOtorrinolaringol. 1994;60:1-16.

[3] ³
Bento R.F. Implante Coclear com transmissão ótica atravésda membrana timpânica. Brasil patente BR 910.5546-6; 1991,December 16.

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Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil☆ 2 ☆Please cite this article as: Bento RF. Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:576.

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Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil^☆ 2 ☆Please cite this article as: Bento RF. Addendum to the history of cochlear implants in Brazil. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2015;81:576.