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The impact of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Otology
Hearing loss and language development Down syndrome (DS) usually arises due to trisomy 21 and is associated with intellectual disability and risks of developmental delays and difficulties, including hearing loss. Hearing loss is common in children with DS [1]. In...

Ossicular reconstruction

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - Otology
Ossicular reconstruction often yields disappointing results, even for the most experienced and skilled of otologists. John Dornhoffer and David Walker explain that the most important determinant of outcome is the patient’s middle ear environment, and offer some valuable words of...

Between sirens and silence: the burden on otorhinolaryngologists in wartime Ukraine

3 July 2026 | | ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Ukrainian ENT teams continue life-saving and routine care under air raid alerts, with staff shortages, strained resources and the long psychological toll of war. War reshapes medicine long before it destroys hospitals. It alters the rhythm of clinical work, the...

Beyond blocked noses: paediatric olfactory dysfunction for the ENT surgeon

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Smell loss in children often goes unnoticed. Recognising the signs, understanding the causes and improving access to assessment could transform care. The hidden epidemic: why smell matters in children When a child presents with nasal obstruction, we instinctively look for...

Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (FESS) - Part 2

1 November 2016 | | 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...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...

Military noise induced hearing loss and the Lost Voices report: the evolution of earshot

1 July 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Brigadier Robin Garnett gives us a snapshot of the 2014 Royal British Legion report on hearing problems of Service personnel and veterans. The difficulties in assessing and managing hearing loss are reiterated in this article, with an introduction to how...

Underdiagnosing eosinophilic oesophagitis in food bolus obstruction: a wake-up call for ENT units

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
The management of FBO has evolved, with most cases now done by upper GI clinicians. Biopsies should be taken routinely to investigate possible eosinophilic oesophagitis. In acute soft food bolus obstruction (FBO), uncovering the root cause is as crucial as...

AAA 2024 + Hear TECH Expo

17 April 2024 -20 April 2024 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Victoria Gonzalez, AuD, PhD, The University of Mississippi Medical Center. AAA 2024+HearTECH Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, proved to be yet another testament to the strength and unity of the audiology community. Nearly 3,000 passionate attendees congregated to delve into the...

9th Beijing International Audiology Conference

24 May 2025 -25 May 2025
The 9th Beijing International Audiology Conference, organised by the Beijing Society of Audiology, was successfully held at the China National Convention Center. Nearly 1000 distinguished audiology experts and industry specialists from both China and overseas gathered for this significant occasion.

Beware of Bicycle Face!

21 January 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Many of us were told as children that we would get square eyes from watching too much television. But spare a thought for those late Victorian ladies, embracing their first taste of liberty on a bicycle, who were threatened with...

A ‘rye’ tail – the fatal illness of Lord Boringdon, a Regency tragedy

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
The anonymous privately-printed book, Some Account of Lord Boringdon’s Accident, describes in deferential terms a case of aspiration of a foreign body and its sequelae. Today aspirated foreign bodies are serious but curable injuries; before the invention of the bronchoscope...