First Croatian auditory brainstem implantation

A deaf female patient was diagnosed with bilateral acoustic neurinomas. Dia gnosis incorporated the standard audiological battery for sensorineural hea ring loss, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The left sid e had been operated on four years previously in another clinic using the su boccipital approach. The auditory brainstem implant surgery was performed o n the 'second side' using the same approach. It was an uneventful operation with good anatomy and no serious post-operative complications. Post-operat ively, the patient performed exceptionally well, with up to 50 per cent of words recognized in the opened set and 85 per cent in the closed set, both without lip-reading.