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Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments

8 January 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...

Monstrous craws and horrid butchery: a concise history of thyroid surgery

3 September 2024 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Prior to the foundation of our speciality, thyroid surgery had a dubious reputation and universally dismal outcomes. Jenny Walton casts a critical eye over this dark chapter. Diseases of the thyroid gland have been referenced in historic texts for well...

A surgeon’s perspective on the challenges facing cochlear implantation in children

1 September 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Auditory Implants, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Paediatrics
Cochlear implantation in children offers a different set of challenges and goals to adult practice. In this article, Iain Bruce, Professor of Paediatric Otolaryngology in Manchester, UK, explains some of the current clinical and research challenges in paediatric cochlear implantation,...

Anaesthesia for excision of vestibular schwannomas

27 February 2020 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
The ‘shared airway’ relationship between ENT surgeons and anaesthetists is well documented. But ENT surgery and anaesthesia interact in numerous other ways, particularly in complex skull base surgery. What do our anaesthetic colleagues want us to know about vestibular schwannoma...

The future of hearing care and the role of audiology

1 March 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Otology
The Clinical Director of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and President-elect of the American Academy of Audiology reviews the status of the present day audiologist’s remit, and discusses the changes we can expect with the changing demographic and behaviour of...

The role of macrolide antibiotics in chronic rhinosinusitis

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus
The use of long-term antibiotics in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis is a contentious issue, not only because of the increasing problem with antibiotic resistance but also because of the potential cardiac risks, including sudden death. In this article, Anders...

Database WG2. The Tinnitus Patient Database in the TINNET COST Action BM1306

1 January 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Tinnitus
Berthold Langguth describes an innovative project that is creating the world’s largest multi-national patient database containing standardised information on tinnitus and medical history, otological examination and psycho-acoustic measures of tinnitus. A challenge for tinnitus treatment and tinnitus research is the...

Adolescence, drug use and body image

1 January 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Paediatrics
Teenagers are notoriously conscious of how they are perceived by others. Dr Saraiva and colleagues explain how this can lead to problems with substance abuse for both boys and girls, and discuss the different substances they may encounter. Adolescence is...

Balance and vestibular disorders in children

6 November 2024 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
Discover the world of paediatric vestibular assessment and management from the team at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, which is revolutionising services in this field. Dizziness and balance problems generate significant morbidity in children of all age groups. Vestibular disorders are...

Brussels, a multicultural city with varied ENT practice

1 January 2019 | | ENTA-ENT
Brussels has a proud history in the world of ENT. Jérome Lechien, who is on the Communications Committee for the CEORL-HNS 2019 Congress, and Daniele de Siati, a member of the international Scientific Committee, give us a history lesson and...

Precision and personalised genomic and epigenomic medicine in audiology/hearing loss

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
A detailed look at the pathogenesis of acquired hearing loss due to exposure to ototoxicity during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Insights from genomic medicine have shown that, along with environmental factors causing epigenetic alterations, hearing loss may be caused...

Intratympanic treatments for subjective idiopathic tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Tinnitus
Direct application of medication into the ear is long established, going back as far as written records. In the modern era, greater understanding of aural anatomy revealed that drugs instilled in the middle ear could potentially diffuse into the cochlea...