Hagr, Abdulrahman Abdullah,Dhanasingh, Anandhan,Jolly, Claude,Hessler, Roland
申请号：
AU2015217381
公开号：
AU2015217381B2
申请日:
2015.02.10
申请国别(地区):
AU
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
An implantable electrode arrangement for a cochlear implant system is described that prevents post-surgical retraction of the electrode. The arrangement includes at least one retraction limiter having an extracochlear portion located at a distal end of the extracochlear electrode lead and an intracochlear portion located at a proximal end of the intracochlear electrode array and made at least in part of a swellable material that expands in response to fluid contact. The intracochlear portion of the retraction limiter is adapted for deformation away from an outer surface of the array proximal end in response to exposure of the swellable material to perilymph fluid within the cochlea after surgical insertion of the electrode array into the implanted cochlea so as to form an anti-retraction projection preventing post-surgical retraction of the array proximal end back through the electrode opening in the outer surface of the implanted cochlea.
