Gregorio Marañón achieves a girl without auditory nerves can hear with an implant.
El Gregorio Marañón achieves a girl without auditory nerves can hear with an implant. the, two year-old girl, who was born deaf, he has practiced an implant hearing of trunk brain. -is the first that this public hospital Madrid makes this intervention to a minor -the girl already perceives sounds, six months after the operation, and is expected to be able to speak Spain, February 2012.- El Hospital Gregorio Marañón, the public network of the community of Madrid, has carried out a major medical breakthrough when performing an auditory brainstem implant to a two year-old girl who was born deaf by absence of auditory nerves, and thanks to this intervention is now able to perceive sounds. Six months after the intervention the child perceives sounds and remains the hope that it will be able to speak later. Implant trunk brain ear was the only possible option so that the girl could be heard, as or hearing aids or an implant cochlear, more common technique for this type of patients with bilateral profound hearing loss and a well-formed cochleathey had solved his problem because of the interruption of the auditory pathway through the nerve. The auditory nerves connect the auditory pathway with cochleovestibular nuclei in the brainstem, where processed sound information that we perceive from the outside. The surgery, which has carried out the medical equipment of the Gregorio Marañón...
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