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Nasal septal perforation repair

1 March 2018 | | Rhinology / Sinus
Nasal septal perforation repair has traditionally been a great challenge. Many surgical techniques are described, however the success rate of closure has often been poor. Experience from the use of pedicled vascularised mucosal flaps in skull base surgery has been...

Cognitive effort and listening in everyday life

26 June 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Neurotology
Dining with family members, amongst the clinking of dishes and glasses, the sounds of conversations and laughter, the husband, a user of hearing aids, misses his wife’s request to bring another bottle of wine. After a third try, the wife,...

In conversation with Robin Youngs

1 November 2019 | | ENT, Otology, Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Paediatric
Members of ENT UK (The British Association of Otolaryngologists and Head and Neck Surgeons) have a long tradition of humanitarian work in countries in Africa and Asia (see article with Professor Davis Howard in previous issue for example). The ENT...

People with language-led dementia in India

2 November 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Aphasia, bilingual, epidemiology, progressive
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a language led dementia characterised by slowly worsening speech and language. It is associated with atrophy of the dominant temporal-parietal lobe regions and is commonly caused by frontotemporal or Alzheimer’s pathologies. There are three PPA...

Locked or unlocked?

1 November 2019 | | Head and Neck | bone plates, conventional plate, locking plate, mandibular fractures, meta-analysis, postoperative complications
This systematic review and meta-analysis from the Netherlands evaluates postoperative complications of mandibular fractures using locking and non-locking systems. It is suggested that postoperative complications of surgical treatment of mandibular fractures occur in 20-26% of patients, and it is thought...

Speech mapping and the benefits of using in clinical practice

1 March 2019 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric
Fitting hearing aids is not simply a case of one size fits all. Nicole da Rocha discusses the benefits of using speech mapping as a verification tool. The verification of hearing aids has become quintessential for best practice. Using either...

Multi-channel cochlear implants: past, present and future

1 September 2017 | | Audiology - Adult, Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, ENT, Otology
Forty years since the first multi-channel devices were implanted, who better than Ingeborg Hochmair, who has been a key figure throughout their evolution, to offer her thoughts on the past, present and future of multi-channel cochlear implants? Read on for...

Hearing in middle-age: hearing impairment, tinnitus and hearing aid use in UK adults

1 March 2015 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Hearing loss has a well-documented adverse impact on emotional, social and physical well-being. In this article, Dr Piers Dawes from the University of Manchester gives an insight into his team’s recent work analysing the very large UK Biobank data set,...

Audiological approach to treatment of blast-induced tinnitus

1 July 2016 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult
Hearing loss and tinnitus resulting from blast waves in the war zone is becoming more common in our clinics. Hamid Jalilvand based in Tehran, shares his experience in audiological rehabilitation and research findings on patients in his clinics with a...

The power of the multidisciplinary team in paediatric cochlear implant assessment

30 April 2020 | | Audiology - Paediatric, Auditory Implants, Otology
Marette, Kate and Justine from the Birmingham Paediatric Centre give a detailed insight into how their team works together to assess children and young people for potential cochlear implantation. Cochlear implants and the specialist MDT The multidisciplinary team in cochlear...

The utilisation of three-dimensional printed models in skull base surgery

1 January 2019 | | ENT, Skull Base Surgery
As technology improves, there are new ways to assist with surgeons when it comes to training and preparing for surgery. Barbara Anne Thomson and Georgios Kontorinis highlight how 3D printing can help with the understanding and surgical planning for complex...

The astronomer’s nose: Tycho Brahe’s controversial prosthesis

24 July 2017 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus, Rhinoplasty
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) is a familiar and colourful figure in the history of science. The immense quantity of data he collected during his lifetime would enable the work of Johannes Kepler and has gained him admission to the astronomical pantheon....