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The emergence of in-office ventilation tubes for the treatment of otitis media in children
7 January 2025
| Nathan C Page, João Pimentel
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ENTA - Otology
In-office tympanostomy tube systems offer a quicker, anaesthesia-free alternative to traditional surgery for children, with promising outcomes and reduced costs. Tympanostomy tube or grommet insertion is the most common surgery performed on children worldwide. Whilst a relatively short and straightforward...
Endovascular therapies for venous tinnitus
5 January 2022
| Gauri Mankekar
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Neurotology, Otology
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Endovascular treatment, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, Lateral sinus stenosis, Venous pulsatile tinnitus
Tinnitus is an extremely vexing issue, not only for patients but also for otolaryngologists. The authors of this article review the causes of venous tinnitus, such as increased intracranial hypertension (IIH), dural venous sinus thrombosis and age-related anatomic variants. They...
How well are we managing epistaxis cases?
Epistaxis constitutes 34.5% of all emergency admissions to otolaryngology departments nation-wide. Presently there are no detailed consensus guidelines for this commonest emergency, and there is tremendous variation of practice. Quite often, non-ENT trained doctors manage this emergency. This paper reviews...
Novel balloon device to control cavernous sinus bleeding
1 March 2016
| Gauri Mankekar
In their Letter to the Editor, the authors suggest a draft for a novel balloon catheter device for sinus haemostasis during trans-sphenoidal surgery which is associated with uncontrollable sinus bleeding in 1-8% cases. Their proposed device has a single lumen...
Endovascular management of cavernous and paraclinoid aneurysms
1 November 2014
| Gentle Wong
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ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Head & Neck
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Aneurysms, Cavernous, Coil, Endovascular, Flow diversion, Paraclinoid, Stent
This review discusses management of aneurysms arising from the internal carotid artery from the entrance into the cavernous sinus until just before the take off of the posterior communicating artery. Whilst paraclinoid aneurysms do not tend to have ENT presentations,...
The changing landscape for hearing loss therapeutics: novel advances of gene and cell therapies
3 September 2024
| Marcelo Rivolta (Prof)
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ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Recent years have seen advances in hearing loss therapeutics, with novel treatments trialled in humans, and others nearing promising first-in-kind clinical trials. First successful clinical trials for a specific form of genetic hearing loss Very exciting news has emerged in...
Cyclops Medtech partners with Hypatia Specialist Clinics
30 October 2021
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Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Cyclops Medtech is partnering with Hypatia Specialist Clinics to provide vestibular diagnostic and therapeutic solutions throughout the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
American Thyroid Association Thyroid Cancer Management Guidelines: utilising risk stratification to optimise patient care
The steep rise in thyroid surgery around the globe, has led to the development of risk stratification to define the indications for surgery and the extent of surgery as well as adjuvant therapies for papillary carcinoma, to avoid over treatment....Aetiology, investigation and acute management of sudden sensorineural hearing loss
The cause of a single sided sensorineural hearing loss has a wide variety of aetiologies. This review, by Edwin Halliday, looks specifically at the differential diagnostic causes of a sudden sensorineural hearing loss, the relevant investigations and the management should...Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 2
1 November 2016
| Martyn Barnes, Pavol Surda, Richard Douglas, Angus Shao, Kim Ah-See (Prof)
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ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In the first of this two-part series, Martyn Barnes and colleagues discussed indications for functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), the surgical objectives and techniques, patient expectations and the risks of surgery [1]. In this second and final part, the authors...
In memory of Robert Allan Yorston (10th March 1920 – 1st October 2016)
1 January 2017
| Alan Gibb
In this special feature article, Alan Gibb writes a touching tribute to his friend and colleague Dr Bob Yorston, a Dundee otolaryngologist, who had a special talent for humour and art. In addition to illustrating the eighth, ninth and tenth...
Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting
1 July 2017
| Simone Walter
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ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the only cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) for which there is a medical treatment available to prevent further hearing loss. Dr Simone Walter discusses cCMV infection, cCMV-related hearing loss, and how to facilitate their...
