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Auditory deprivation and single-sided deafness

1 September 2019 | | Auditory Implants | Cochlear Implant, Single-sided Deaf, Speech Perception
In cases of bilateral auditory deprivation, there is clear evidence of an inverse relationship between performance after cochlear implantation and the length of severe to profound deafness prior to implantation (i.e. the longer the deprivation the poorer the outcome on...

Grading dysphagia as a toxicity in treating head and neck cancer

1 September 2018 | | Clinical trials, Deglutition and deglutition disorders, Head and neck cancer, Toxicity grading
Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) is a system used by clinicians to grade the toxicity of oncology treatments in a standardised manner. Dysphagia is perhaps the most common long-term toxicity of head and neck cancer treatment. Currently, a...

Alcohol consumption and the risk of developing benign laryngeal disorders?

1 November 2016 | | Alcohol consumption, Benign laryngeal disease, Binge drinking, Dysphonia, Voice disorder
Alcohol consumption among South Korean adults is apparently high, with over three quarters of the adult population consuming alcohol and a ‘high-risk’ drinking rate of one in five. Excessive alcohol consumption is considered to be a risk factor for developing...

Olfactory ensheathing cells and their safe harvest

1 November 2016 |
This interesting and unique paper not only demonstrates that biopsy of olfactory mucosa in the region of the superior turbinate is a safe procedure but also provides valuable insight into an engaging area of research by a world class team...

Outcome of TORS to tongue base and epiglottis in patients with OSA intolerant of conventional treatment

1 September 2016 | | Epiglottoplasty, Obstructive sleep apnea, Robotic surgery, Tongue base reduction, Transoral
The use of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in ENT is rather controversial, but the use of robotic surgery for obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA), makes it doubly so. Previous studies on TORS in OSA have been performed with other types of...

Aerosol research and performance

3 September 2021 | | ENT, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, COVID-19
Is singing safe? This was a question asked around the world at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Natalie Watson and Chris Orton tell us about a rapidly-convened research group that led to profound changes in UK Government...

Variations in obstructive level with increasing depth of sedation in DISE

1 November 2016 | | BIS, DISE, Drug-induced sedation endoscopy, Propofol, Sedation depth, Simulated snoring
This study highlights some of the controversies surrounding DISE (Drug Induced Sedation Endoscopy, or otherwise known as sleep nasendoscopy in the UK). On one hand it provides some evidence that the BIS (BiSpectral Index), recordings of patients while they are...

The impact of simulation on ENT training

3 July 2023 | | ENT
Surgical training is constantly developing to improve ENT surgeons’ technical and non-technical skills. In this article, Joshua Whittaker, an ENT Registrar and ENT Simulation Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham, describes the rise of simulation training. Simulation is the recreation of...

Are we making progress on tinnitus?

23 May 2017 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Otology
One of the aspects of tinnitus that drew me into it becoming a major theme of my clinical and research work was how little work had been done when I began to see patients in the mid 1980s. This struck...

Composing with Meniere’s disease: a personal reflection

3 September 2021 | | Audiology - Adult, Auditory Implants
Is a fluctuating hearing loss and composing music incompatible? Professor Andrew Hugill discusses his personal experience of Meniere’s disease and the work that has developed as a result of the condition. As I write this article, I am in the...

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...

Biologic therapies for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a new paradigm

5 July 2022 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Surgery for nasal polyposis has evolved significantly in the last 30 years, and now the medical management may be on the cusp of a revolution. Biologics using monoclonal antibodies to target specific immune pathways have introduced a paradigm shift in...