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Inter-aural hearing preservation in cochlear implantation

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants | Binaural, Cochlear implant, Hearing Preservation, Paediatric, Technique
Hearing preservation during cochlear implantation is becoming increasingly important, although results can be unpredictable. NICE are in the process of updating their guidance in the UK and it is possible that those with better hearing than the current candidates will...

Hearing loss and QOL

1 September 2018 | | Hearing loss, Evaluation, Auditory rehabilitation, cochlear implant
This article evaluates the impact of hearing loss and its rehabilitation on the quality of life (QoL) of adults. The authors suggest that the currently used scale, Aphab, is long, complicated and does not take into account minor changes. The...
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Endonasal Endoscopic Surgery of Skull Base Tumors: An Interdisciplinary Approach

7 January 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
This book sets itself apart from its peers by providing a unique interdisciplinary approach to skull base surgery. As the title implies, there is naturally a huge focus on endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery (between chapters 8 and 15). The...

Age and the SSCC

1 July 2016 | | Minor Syndrome, Upper semicircular canal, Anatomy, Scan rocks
This is a radioanatomical study on the CT scans of 385 temporal bones to measure some parameters of the superior semicircular canals (SCCC) including bony thickness, diameter and projection into the middle cranial fossa. All measurements were performed on a...

Long-term results of incus vibroplasty in patients with moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss

1 July 2015 |
The Vibrant Soundbridge (VSB) middle ear implant is now a well-accepted and widely utilised treatment option for patients with sensorineural hearing loss unable to use standard hearing aids. However, as a relatively recent addition to the portfolio of implants available...

The future of treatments for hearing and balance: a 15 and 50-year perspective

1 March 2019 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Jameel Muzaffar and Manohar Bance paint a picture of what otology will look like 15 and 50 years’ time. Will we still need doctors? Will there still be an ENT news journal? The last 50 years have seen advances including...

Perspectives on audiology training and education in Canada and New Zealand

1 November 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
In this Trainee Matters we look at audiology training in two different locations from around the world, Canada and New Zealand. Marshall Chasin gives us an overview of the education system in Canada, while Amy Arrowsmith explains the history of...

Foreign object removal from the ear or nose

1 July 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
The range of nasal and aural foreign bodies that present to accident and emergency (A&E) departments, emergency rooms and minor injury units is limited only by the imagination. Aetiology and epidemiology statistics point to patients being predominantly children in the...

Neurological idiopathic disease: a shared journey for NASA and medicine

4 November 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Whilst Southampton can’t really be described as an extreme environment, experiments carried out in the city have certainly been taken out of this world. Robert Marchbanks discusses one of the associations between Southampton, The International Space Station and tympanic membrane...

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...

Per-Ingvar Brånemark: father of osseointegration

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The application of osseointegration has been central to the development of both bone-anchored hearing aids and dental implants. But how did it all come about? Per-Ingvar Brånemark (1929–2014). Image Johan Wingborg. Many hearing-impaired patients owe a great debt of gratitude...

Vocal cord paralysis: an update

1 May 2018 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The management of unilateral vocal cord paralysis has changed in the last few years: this has largely come about as a result of improvements in technology, meaning that medialisations are quicker and easier to perform than previously. This article will...