Methotrexate has been shown to be beneficial in several small series; however, in a large prospective trial, methotrexate was comparable to placebo in maintaining hearing in AIED patients [5].
2. Did you or anyone in your family receive any training on how to maintain the hearing aid/wheelchair?
As such, administration of protective agents prior to, during or after cochlear implantation could provide the required promotion of cochlear health to maintain residual hearing.
The use of partial-hearing models is of critical importance for the development and refining of EAS strategies and developing procedures to maintain residual hearing after chronic cochlear implantation.
The typical EAS recipient is an adult who has lost high frequency hearing postlingually, whilst maintaining usable hearing in the low frequencies, creating a so-called 'ski-slope' hearing loss.
Results: 45% (n=18) presented normal auditory thresholds, 40% (n=16) showed some improvement in hearing, 15% (n=6) maintained initial hearing level.
Many members of the breed are still well and active at 12 or 14 years of age, and some maintain their sight, hearing and even their teeth until their final days.
Because the hearing system involves high-energy-demanding metabolic processes, CKB is likely to play an important role in maintaining normal hearing, as well as in pathological hearing impairments caused by energy deficiencies in the cochlea.
And if Rowlinson's former colleagues – he died in 2006 – maintain they never heard anything to trouble them, how did it possibly pass them by when there was so much rumour and innuendo within the town, and Woodward, among others, remembers it being the talk of the club?
On March 27, the Bombay High Court directed that status quo be maintained pending hearing on the petition filed by Union Ministry of Defense seeking implementation of an order directing demolition of the 31-floor Adarsh building.
