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Hearing aid microphone considerations for binaural hearing: When to select natural or aggressive directional microphone technology?
Should I use omni-directional or fixed directionality? Does it make a difference if I’m fitting a unilateral hearing loss? Mark Laureyns discusses the current evidence on directional microphones and provides practical advice on the systems and when to employ them....Clinical utility and practical interpretation of the video head impulse test
1 November 2015
| Maria Heuberger, Leonel Luis, Nadine Lehnen, Erich Schneider
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
The head impulse test (HIT) is an essential bedside test to detect peripheral vestibular deficits. The video head impulse test (vHIT) is a new tool quantifying the HIT. In this article Maria Heuberger and colleagues point out the clinical utility...
Canal plugging for intractable Meniere’s disease
30 April 2020
| Victor Osei-Lah
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Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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Meniere’s disease, Semicircular canal plugging, Vertigo
In this single centre retrospective study, the authors applied semicircular canal plugging, well known as a treatment for refractory BPPV, to intractable unilateral Meniere’s disease (MD) that had failed to respond to medical treatment with betahistine and hydrochlorothiazide. However, in...
Cognitive function is preserved in episodic vestibular disorders
4 September 2023
| Victor Osei-Lah
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Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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Meniere’s disease, anxiety, cognition, depression, vestibular migraine
Cognitive deficit in bilateral vestibular failure in particular, but also in unilateral vestibular failure, is well documented. The authors designed this prospective study to determine if deficits in cognition, as well as anxiety and depression, were present in episodic vestibular...
Better Hearing with Cochlear Implants
1 May 2014
| David K Selvadurai
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
This soft cover book of 453 pages describes in detail the work undertaken at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in North Carolina which has led to many of the designs and theories of speech processing in cochlear implantation. It is...
Springtime is here and the Soluvos team is ready to meet readers!
19 April 2024
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Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Soluvos Medical’s biggest show this year will be the CEORL-HNS in Dublin, Ireland coming up in June.
Interacoustics: Trends in Balance
17 September 2024
-19 September 2024
I recently attended the 4th Annual Trends in Balance online course. Day one was optimizing the vestibular diagnostic test battery, day two looked at the functional balance assessments available and day three looked at vestibular rehabilitation.
Persistent imbalance after traumatic brain injury is central in origin
2 March 2022
| Victor Osei-Lah
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Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
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Peripheral vestibular function, central sensory integration, mild traumatic brain injury, oculomotor function, postural control
Several residual symptoms, including dizziness and imbalance, can follow traumatic brain injury, no matter how mild. This study focused on the mechanisms, peripheral and central, underlying the complaint of persistent imbalance in patients with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)....
Oscar Wilde’s Final Irony
27 February 2020
| Philippe F de Z Bowles
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ENTA - ENT
The celebrated writer and poet, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. He distinguished himself as a classicist at Trinity College Dublin before, earning a scholarship to Oxford University, where he gained a double...
MRI evaluation to assess the role of frusemide in reducing endolymphatic hydrops
1 July 2016
| Madhup K Chaurasia
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Diuretics, Endolymphatic Hydrops, Gadolinium, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Endolymphatic hydrops is generally considered to be a marker in Ménière’s disease and frusemide is used with the purpose of reducing it and improving symptoms. With the use of MRI, the authors have used the phenomenon of non-enhancing endolymphatic structures...
Vestibular screening in occupational medicine
1 May 2015
| Badr Eldin Mostafa
Occupational vestibular disorders carry a high medico legal and economic burden. The occupational medicine physician must rely on rapid, non-invasive, economical and reproducible screening tests. This article compares the simplified caloric test of Veits (CTV) with the skull vibration-induced nystagmus...
Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss and vertigo
3 September 2024
| Gauri Mankekar
This prospective longitudinal study evaluated vestibular function inpatients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) using caloric and video head impulse tests. All patients were admitted for treatment of their ISSHL and divided into two cohorts depending on presence or...
