Christo Bester

Monitoring Cochlear Health With Intracochlear Electrocochleography During Cochlear Implantation: Findings From an International Clinical Investigation.

S O'Leary, E Mylanus, F Venail, T Lenarz, C Birman, F Di Lella, JT Roland, B Gantz, A Beynon, M Sicard, A Buechner, WK Lai, C Boccio, B Choudhury, VD Tejani, K Plant, R English, R Arts, C Bester

Journal article  |  2023  |  Ear Hear

OBJECTIVES: Electrocochleography (ECochG) is emerging as a tool for monitoring cochlear function during cochlear implant (CI) surg..

Four-Point Impedance Changes After Cochlear Implantation for Lateral Wall and Perimodiolar Implants.

Tayla Razmovski, Christofer Bester, Aaron Collins, Eren Tan, Stephen J O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  Otol Neurotol

OBJECTIVE: Monitor four-point impedance in cochlear implant recipients over time and determine if implant type, surgical approach,..

Electrocochleography triggered intervention successfully preserves residual hearing during cochlear implantation: Results of a randomised clinical trial

Christofer Bester, Aaron Collins, Tayla Razmovski, Stefan Weder, Robert J Briggs, Benjamin Wei, Atiqah Farah Zakaria, Jean-Marc Gerard, Alistair Mitchell-Innes, Michael Tykocinski, Richard Kennedy, Claire Iseli, Markus Dahm, Simon Ellul, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  HEARING RESEARCH

BACKGROUND: Preservation of natural hearing during cochlear implantation is associated with improved speech outcomes, however more..

Four-point Impedance Changes in the Early Post-Operative Period After Cochlear Implantation.

Tayla Razmovski, Christofer Bester, Aaron Collins, Stephen J O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  Otol Neurotol

OBJECTIVE: Monitoring four-point impedance changes after cochlear implantation with comparison to conventional impedance measureme..

Spironolactone Ameliorates Cochlear Implant Induced Endolymphatic Hydrops.

Nathan J Creber, Hayden T Eastwood, Amy J Hampson, Jonathon Lo, Dongcheng Zhang, Scott A Chambers, Christo W Bester, Peter R Thorne, Stephen J O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  Otol Neurotol

BACKGROUND: Endolymphatic hydrops (EH) has been observed in both animal and human cochleae following cochlear implant (CI) surgery..

Automatic analysis of cochlear response using electrocochleography signals during cochlear implant surgery.

Sudanthi Wijewickrema, Christofer Bester, Jean-Marc Gerard, Aaron Collins, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLoS One

Cochlear implants (CIs) provide an opportunity for the hearing impaired to perceive sound through electrical stimulation of the he..

Cochlear implant surgery and perioperative dizziness is associated with utricular hyperfunction

Michelle Truong, Christo Bester, Kumiko Orimoto, Maria Vartanyan, Debra Phyland, Hamish MacDougall, Sylvia Tari, Alex Rousset, Ian Curthoys, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF VESTIBULAR RESEARCH-EQUILIBRIUM & ORIENTATION

BACKGROUND: Dizziness is a common perioperative complication after cochlear implantation (CI). To date, the exact cause behind thi..

Real Time Monitoring During Cochlear Implantation: Increasing the Accuracy of Predicting Residual Hearing Outcomes

Stefan Weder, Christofer Bester, Aaron Collins, Chanan Shaul, Robert J Briggs, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2021  |  OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY

OBJECTIVES: Real-time electrocochleography (rt-ECochG) is a method to detect intracochlear potential changes during cochlear impla..

The Effect of Different Round Window Sealants on Cochlear Mechanics Over Time

Timothy Mclean, Philip Clamp, Luke Campbell, Amy Hampson, Scott Chambers, Aaron Collins, Christofer Bester, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2021  |  OTOLOGY & NEUROTOLOGY

BACKGROUND: This project investigated the effects of round window membrane (RWM) sealants after surgical incision, with a focus on..

Cochlear microphonic latency predicts outer hair cell function in animal models and clinical populations

Christofer Bester, Stefan Weder, Aaron Collins, Adrian Dragovic, Kate Brody, Amy Hampson, Stephen O'Leary

Journal article  |  2020  |  HEARING RESEARCH

As recently reported, electrocochleography recorded in cochlear implant recipients showed reduced amplitude and shorter latency in..