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CT guided cochlear implant programming improves performance

1 July 2016 |
There is currently no national (UK) consensus on imaging patients for cochlear implantation. This paper may change that. It has shown increased hearing and quality of life in paediatric cochlear implant (CI) users when the programming has been assisted by...

What are the non-inflammatory causes of a conductive loss?

1 May 2016 | | Conductive hearing loss, Exploratory tympanotomy, Tympanic membrane
This retrospective study looked at patients with an intact tympanic membrane with non-inflammatory causes – i.e. otitis media and cholesteotoma. They document their findings based on exploratory tympanotomy. They operated depending on the findings with either a stapedectomy or a...

Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder

1 May 2016 |
This is a concise summary of auditory neuropathy and current knowledge of the disorder through review of a recently published article. The terminology of this hearing disorder implies the site of the lesion is neural; however the characteristic electrophysical signature...

Outcome measures for hearing loss

1 November 2015 |
This short editorial explores some possible options in measurement of quality of care in audiology. We traditionally tend to use clinician-related outcomes in place of patient-reported outcome measures and so we could miss a wealth of data on the impact...

Vestibular functions of hereditary hearing loss patients with GJB2 mutations

1 September 2015 | | GJB2 gene, Caloric test, Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential
Mutations of the GJB2 gene are a common cause of deafness, being found in 15-25% of cases of congenital deafness. Over 100 mutations are now recognised and may be associated with a hearing loss ranging from mild to profound. This...

Differences in timbral cues’ perception between teenagers with cochlear implants and those with normal hearing

1 September 2015 | | Cochlear implants, Korean traditional instruments, Music perception, Sound preferences, Timbre recognition
The authors aimed to assess timbral cues’ perception of teenagers with cochlear implants and compare it to the respective perception of normally hearing teenagers. Thirty-four teenagers were included in the study, nine Korean adolescents with cochlear implants and 25 adolescents...

Neurosarcoidosis: another aetiologic factor for deafness and labyrinthitis ossificans

1 July 2015 |
Very few studies describe deafness secondary to neurosarcoidosis as the latter is a rare inflammatory disorder of the nervous system usually associated with facial nerve and optic nerve disorders. This interesting case report describes a rare case of cochlear ossification...
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Audiological symptoms in children with 18q deletion

6 November 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
18q deletion is a rare genetic condition that occurs in approximately one in 40,000 live births. Those born with this deletion often are born with a range of symptoms, including developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, autoimmune disorders and hearing loss. The...

From a dysphagia clinical trial to a multidisciplinary head and neck clinical pathway – the road to implementation

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-Auditory Implants | Clinical pathway, Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Dysphagia, Head and neck cancer, Implementation, Nutrition, Oral intake
This paper describes the barriers and facilitators to establishing a structured and coordinated multidisciplinary care pathway for patients with head and neck cancer at a medical centre in the USA. The initiative was set in motion by the roll out...
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How are swallowing and voice affected following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF)?

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) requires an anterior transcervical approach (ACA) to allow decompression of the cervical spine and nerve roots. This approach is also occasionally used for corpectomy and osteophyte removal. Key neurovascular structures related to swallowing and...

The workplace environment and doctors’ health (ENT)

1 January 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
It is well established that doctors have higher levels of stress, depression and suicide than the general population [1] and most other professional groups (Figure 1 illustrates the factors that can make us ill). In addition they have high levels...

Matthew Yung and Chris Raine Travelling Scholarship to Iowa

5 June 2024 -14 June 2024
I was the grateful recipient of the 2020 Matthew Yung and Chris Raine scholarship, although due to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath I could not take up the opportunity until June this year. I chose to visit the otology and neurotology department at Iowa University Hospitals, in particular to meet with Bruce Gantz, an early adopter of bony obliteration of the mastoid, himself inspired by the work of Ulf Mercke of Sweden who developed this technique in the 1980s.