Selahattin GENÇ, Serdar BAŞER, Ferit BAYAKIR, Halil Erdem ÖZEL, Fatih ÖZDOĞAN, Meliha Gülden GENÇ, Adin SELCUK

Kemiğe implante işitme cihazlarında kronik ağrı

Kemiğe implante işitme cihazlarının komplikasyonları nadirdir. En sık görülen postoperatif komplikasyon titanyum implantetrafındaki yumuşak doku reaksiyonlarıdır. Kronik baş ağrısı ise nadir görülen bir komplikasyondur. Biz bu makalede, kemiğeimplante işitme cihazı uyguladığımız, ancak hastanın lokal ve sistemik tedavilere rağmen çözemediğimiz kronik baş ağrısı,yanma hissi nedeniyle postoperatif birinci yılında cihazını çıkarmak zorunda kaldığımız hastamızı sunduk. Başarısızlık nedenleriniliteratür eşliğinde tartıştık.

Chronic pain in bone anchored hearing aids

The complications of bone anchored hearing aids are very rare. The most seen postoperative complication is soft tissue reaction locally occuring around the titanium implant. Chronic headache is a rarely seen complication related to bone anchored hearing aids application. We presented a patient having complaints of chronic headache and burning sensation after bone anchored hearing aids application. Follow up for one year after the operation, despite the local and systemic therapies, there was no improvement of symptoms and the device was compulsorily removed. This rare complication of bone anchored hearing aids application is reviewied in the literature and probable reasons of failure are discussed.

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