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Active middle ear implants and bone-anchored hearing systems
27 February 2020
| Alexander Christian Ryberg, Niels Cramer West, Per Cayé-Thomasen (Prof)
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ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The implantable hearing device market has grown significantly over recent years. But as conventional hearing aids improve and cochlear implant candidacy widens, what is the role for active middle ear implants and bone anchored hearing systems, and how should we...
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...
Surgical anatomy for central auditory device implantation
1 November 2015
| Gauri Mankekar
This cadaveric study by researchers in the USA and Japan examined the cerebellopontine angles with the aid of the surgical microscope and 45o endoscope via the retrosigmoid and translabyrinthine approach. Using fibre dissection technique, the ascending auditory pathways between the...
Cochlear implantation in inner ear schwannoma patients
Inner ear schwannomas (IES) are rare. Patients with IES tend to lose their hearing. Surgery is a treatment option, but it leads to complete loss of hearing. Other treatment options include stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and watchful waiting (WW). The authors...Sound Sensation music festival
6 October 2022
Alex Griffiths-Brown heads to Austria to hear MED-EL showcasing music by and for hearing implant users.
Satisfaction levels in elderly patients with cochlear implants
7 January 2021
| Praneta Kulloo
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Otology
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Cochlear implants, Elderly individuals, Personal satisfaction, Questionnaire
Hearing rehabilitation in the elderly is of utmost importance as it is associated with depression and dementia in this age group. Cochlear implantation is indicated for hearing-impaired individuals who do not derive adequate benefit from conventional hearing aids. In this...
Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids – Third Edition
3 May 2022
| Brian CJ Moore
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ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids – Third Edition is intended primarily as a course book for “non‑audiologists or undergraduate audiology students who have yet to fit their first pair of hearing aids”. It is aimed primarily at students in the...
Further understanding of GJB2 hearing loss
9 November 2021
| Robert Nash
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, Otology, Paediatric ENT
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Connexin 26, GJB2, Genetic modifier, Hearing level, Hereditary hearing loss, Sibling
For many years, hearing loss has been an area which has attracted the interest of clinical and academic geneticists. Genetic testing for severe-profound hearing loss is now commonplace in many healthcare systems. Understanding the genetics of hearing loss has improved...
Possibility of noise induced hearing loss during middle ear suction for secretory otitis media
Emission of high intensity sound is dangerous to the cochlea and can result in noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). Removal of middle ear fluid is common in everyday practice and the possibility of inducing NIHL is seldom considered and not...
Hearing loss in the contralateral ear after mastoid drilling
1 September 2014
| Madhup K Chaurasia
It is difficult to conceive that most of the noise generated by drilling the mastoid would not be conveyed to the contralateral cochlea, by direct transmission through the skull bone, where the attenuation factor is only 5-10 dB. Only a...
Are today’s implantable hearing devices better than conventional devices for patients with conductive and mixed hearing loss?
30 April 2021
| Ad Snik
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ENTA - Auditory Implants
In March 2014, we published a paper in ENT & Audiology News, with a similar title. Below, an updated overview is presented of available devices (early 2021) for patients with conductive/mixed hearing loss. The focus is on effectiveness. Patients with...
In this issue...Inner Ear Therapeutics
2 September 2022
| Emma Stapleton, Ralph Holme
Emma Stapleton, MBChB, FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant Otolaryngologist, Cochlear Implant and Skull Base Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK. E: emmastapleton@doctors.org.ukTwitter: @otolaryngolofox Ralph Holme, Director of Research and Insight, RNID, UK. Ralph. E: Holme@rnid.org.uk W: www.rnid.org.uk For Mar/Apr 2022, we sang the...
