Posture, Gait, Quality of Life, and Hearing with a Vestibular Implant.
Margaret R ChowAndrianna I AyiotisDesi P SchooYoav GimmonKelly E LaneBrian J MorrisMehdi A RahmanNicolas S ValentinPeter J BoutrosStephen P BowditchBryan K WardDaniel Q SunCarolina Treviño GuajardoMichael C SchubertJohn P CareyCharles C Della SantinaPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2021)
Six months and 1 year after unilateral implantation of a vestibular prosthesis for bilateral vestibular hypofunction, measures of posture, gait, and quality of life were generally in the direction of improvement from baseline, but hearing was reduced in the ear with the implant in all but 1 participant. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02725463.).