Top surgeon of St. Pölten University Hospital gave a Ukrainian boy a new attitude towards a life patient was torn by deafness by a special operation.
Yevhen is 14 years old, comes from Ukraine and has spent almost his entire life in complete silence. At the age of only seven months, he was seriously with meningitis. With dramatic consequences – bilateral hearing loss, almost complete numbness. “Normal language development was never possible for the child”
In fact, communication with mum and dad only worked through an improvised sign language. Yevhen could never learn to read or write about his suffering and did not go to school. Only the escape to Austria opened new opportunities – and brought him into contact with the doctor who had to change his life. Dr. Georg Sprinzl, the world-looking specialist, the diagnosis of the diagnosis that Yevhen can be helped with a Cochlea implant-a electronic inner ear prosthesis that allows loud impressions about electrical impulses to be transferred directly to the auditory nerve.
First progress not self -evident
Only two weeks after the procedure, the processor could be activated for the first time – with a surprising success: the boy heard tones, words – for the first time – and started to understand them. A breakthrough that is anything but self -evident for children with the present deafness. “It is still a long way,” Dr. emphasizes Sprinzl. “But the first progress shows that my little patient has the perspective on a self -determined life.”
Source: Krone
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