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Voice issues in transgender individuals

1 September 2015 | | female-to-male transgender, female-to-male transsexual, gender diversity, voice, voice problem, voice treatment
Recently, former decathlete and TV personality, Bruce Jenner, admitted that he is transgender, thereby becoming the most famous and vocal advocate for transgender issues. Transgender refers to female to male or male to female identification. In either case, voice modification...

Speech audiometry tests in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment

1 September 2015 |
This paper caught my eye because, with our ageing population, mild cognitive impairment and dementia are a major, growing problem. We know that ageing causes a multitude of medical and social issues. So it seems wise to investigate the effects...

Vestibular migraine – the story so far and the work still to do

1 September 2015 | | Vestibular migraine, comorbidity, diagnostic criteria, epidemiology, validation
This interesting discussion paper begins with an overview of the background to the development of vestibular migraine as a separate diagnostic category. It discusses in some depth the diagnostic uncertainties in the context of an entity without a biomarker and...

Unilateral vocal cord mobility impairment and laryngopulmonary physiology

1 May 2015 |
The concept of iatrogenic recurrent laryngeal nerve injury following thyroid surgery is often considered with respect to voice change but its potential impact on airway physiology has thus far not been evaluated. A cross-sectional observational study reviewed 21 patients with...

Cochlear implantation in Ménière’s disease

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-ENT | speech recognition, cochlear implant, bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss, Meniere's disease, quality of life, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, IMPACT, ADULTS
This was a Belgian retrospective study of seven patients with Ménière’s disease who underwent cochlear implantation. All patients had bilateral severe to profound hearing loss and all met AAO-HNS criteria for Ménière’s disease. Follow-up for patients ranged from six months...

Head and neck myxofibrosarcoma: a case report and review of the literature

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | Malignant fibrous histiocytoma, Midcheek masses, Myxofibrosarcoma, Myxosarcoma
Myxofibrosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma that occurs in late adult life, peaking in the seventh decade, and it is mainly encountered in the lower extremities. Cases within the head and neck region are extremely rare and to...

Mastering Medical Photography of the Head and Neck

1 January 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Imaging
Medical photography has always been an integral part of the medical profession with benefits that span diagnosis, follow up, assessment of results and teaching. The popularisation of digital photography has made it more accessible to most doctors and other health...

Aspirin desensitisation for aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
In this article, the authors describe the importance of identifying aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis refractory to standard medical treatment. This can then open the door to considering aspirin desensitisation treatment which, in their hands, has proven...

Recurrent respiratory papilloma treatment in the office

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In this interesting new article, Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe their technique for managing recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis in an outpatient setting using channelled endoscopes. The recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) of the larynx is a chronic HPV-associated viral disease. Clinical...

Building sound: from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Modern architecture can use scientific techniques to shape room acoustics and create great sounding places. Professor Trevor Cox discusses our ancestors’ understanding of the importance of building techniques to enhance acoustics from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall. Going to an...

Whale hearing tests through evoked potential audiometry

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Covering over 70% of the earth’s surface and reaching known depths of 11km, the world’s oceans tick the box for an extreme environment. What do we know of the impact of environmental noise on the deep-sea dwellers of this habitat?...

In conversation with Dr Narveshwar Sinha

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
‘Only if you hear, you speak’ – early diagnosis of deafness On the occasion of World Hearing Day, Vikas Malik interviewed Narveshwar Sinha, Chairman of IDEAL Charity, a UK-based charity working for the hearing impaired in less developed countries for...