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Identifying congenital CMV: the screening debate

4 May 2021 | | Auditory Implants, Paediatric ENT | Congenital cytomegalovirus, Hearing loss, Screening
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is a significant global public health burden and is the biggest non-genetic cause of childhood hearing loss, as well as being an important cause of neurodevelopmental delay. Despite a study concluding that there was not enough evidence...
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Modifying two-week wait protocol for suspected head and neck cancer patients during COVID-19

3 March 2021 | | Head and Neck | Head And Neck Neoplasms, Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of Head And Neck, COVID-19, Thyroid Neoplasms, Thyroid Nodule, Diagnostic Imaging, Histopathology
As healthcare workers, we are committed to ensuring that our patients continue to receive the optimum care that we are set up to deliver. However, the last year has shown that we need to be mindful of balancing this with...

Audiology in this issue...Hyperacusis (Jan/Feb19)

1 January 2019
Audiologists, otologists, and auditory neuroscientists are accustomed to dealing with problems of hearing loss but, until recently, little attention has been given to the experience of hearing sound too intensely. This experience is variously given the names hyperacusis, and reduced or decreased sound tolerance, and the affected individual finds everyday sound intensely and excruciatingly loud, rendering workplaces, shops, and social spaces intolerable.
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MRI scanning patients with cochlear implants and auditory brainstem implants

3 November 2023 | | Auditory Implants | CI, cochlear implant, ABI, auditory brainstem implant, MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, pain
In the last five to six decades, MRI scanning has gone from physics experiments in Nottingham University through to Nobel prize-winning work by Sir Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur, to a ‘routine’ imaging modality with an estimated 60 million MRI...

WENTS Mentor Training Meeting 2020

20 November 2020
HALF DAY PROGRAMME

Improving cochlear-implant performance in the short- and medium-term

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Audiology - Diagnostic, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology, Paediatric ENT
Can bespoke cochlear implant programming strategies reduce the variability seen in patient performance with an implant? Bob Carlyon reviews the current situation and gives us a glimpse of the future. Although many cochlear implant (CI) patients understand speech well in...

Hidden hearing loss in humans

1 March 2018 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
Awareness of cochlear synaptopathy (‘hidden hearing loss’) is growing. Chris Plack gives us an introduction to the condition, defining it and reviewing recent research in humans and animals with respect to noise exposure. The main cause of hearing loss is...

The role of prediction and gain in tinnitus

2 November 2020 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Dr Will Sedley is a Clinical Academic Neurologist who has done groundbreaking work in the field of tinnitus mechanisms. Here, he introduces and explains the concepts of prediction and of gain as they relate to troublesome tinnitus. This article focuses...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Imaging
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...

Robotic surgery for squamous cell cancer: the new frontiers

4 November 2021 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Although the da Vinci platform was FDA approved for early-stage oropharyngeal cancers, the indications have expanded. In this article, John Hardman explains how surgeons, with greater understanding of the strengths and limitations of robotic surgery, have systematically set out to...

Branchio Oto Renal syndrome

1 May 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Otology, Genetics
Branchio Oto Renal Syndrome (BOR) is an autosomal dominant disorder with branchial, otologic and renal manifestations. The presence of clinical signs varies among and within affected families. Three causative genes for BOR syndrome have been reported thus far: EYA1, SIX1...

Understanding new and emerging categories of hearing devices

1 November 2019 | | Audiology - Adult
The hearing device landscape is rapidly changing, and what should be given, to whom, and why, are questions that many hearing healthcare professionals are asking. Brent Edwards discusses these questions and how consumer characteristics may influence their choice. In 2016,...