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How young is too young for tympanoplasty?

1 November 2015 | | Age, Children, Myringoplasty, Tympanic membrane perforatio
This paper presents the largest series of pre-school age children undergoing tympanoplasty compared with older children. The authors have collected much prospective data on 259 children undergoing 284 surgeries so were able to perform multivariate analysis. The age groupings of...

Radiology and sinus disease: “the ever-evolving landscape”

1 May 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Computed tomography (CT) remains the imaging modality of choice in assessment of patients with symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis resistant to conservative treatment. In the last 10 years, CT technology has seen significant advances with the development and integration of multi-detector...

Audiovestibular findings in children with enlarged vestibular aqueduct

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Enlarged vestibular aqueduct is reported to affect up to 15% of the paediatric population with sensorineural hearing loss. Devin McCaslin and Bridget Smith provide an up-to-date overview of the mechanisms and clinical symptoms underlying the condition and share some of...

10th Annual International Surgical Sleep Society Meeting

10 May 2019 -11 May 2019 | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
Report by: Vik Veer, Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital and Queens Hospital The 10th International Surgical Sleep Society Meeting was held on 10-11 May 2019 at New York Marriott Marquis, USA. Overlooking the boisterous Times Square and it’s...

New curricula: trainees’ and trainers’ thoughts

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-ENT
After the disruption to training and clinical practice from COVID, it is interesting and perhaps encouraging that plans are in place to support ENT training in both mainland Europe and the UK with new formal curricula. We hear trainees’ and...

The artificial eardrum: how an eggshell membrane fed a German ENT family

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT
In the pre-antibiotic era, purulent otitis media often resulted in a permanent eardrum perforation with hearing loss. In addition to pig or fish bladders, eggshell membranes and cigarette paper were used as eardrum prostheses. I have vivid personal boyhood memories...

Burnout: is this just a pandemic phenomenon?

3 May 2022 | | ENTA-ENT
The phrase ‘burnout’ is often heard, but what is it, and what are the early warning signs? Importantly, how can it be prevented or managed? Over the last few years, health professional wellbeing, mental health, and burnout have come to...

DP Medical brings groundbreaking non-occlusive airway dilation balloon to UK market

31 October 2022 | Research & Development
Leading healthcare supplies company, DP Medical Systems Ltd, is bringing a groundbreaking, non-occlusive airway dilation balloon to the UK market.

In Memory: An Interview with Professor Leslie Michaels

1 April 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
The Memorial Service for Professor Leslie Michaels takes place next week (mid-April 2019). Professor Michaels was the former Professor of Pathology at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology at UCL and The RNTN&E Hospital. His inspirational achievements are worthy of...

In conversation with Dr Naufal Kassim

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Jane and I first met you six years ago, when we were questioning the apparent high incidence of childhood deafness in Tanzania, and it is a real pleasure doing this interview with you. Your contribution to ENT and general health...

TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
Transoral robotic surgery is now a well-accepted technique in malignant tumours of the tongue base. Here the team from St Mary’s and the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital in London describe its use in carefully selected patients with...

Developing medical devices for children: opportunities and challenges

1 March 2014 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Paediatrics
The development of medical devices for infants and children lags significantly behind the development of devices for adults. While in the United States the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set up incentives for developing child age-specific pharmaceuticals, there is...