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Audible Contrast Threshold – a new test to guide setting help-in-noise features in hearing aids

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
A new diagnostic test that is quick and has directly applicable results to hearing aid settings has arrived, but how does it work? Leigh Martin has the answers. In an earlier article for ENT & Audiology News, Parmar and Rajasingam...

Type 1 thyroplasty using a novel and inflatable implant from APrevent® VOIS

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - ENT
Unilateral vocal cord immobility severely impacts voice, swallowing, and airway functions. A novel approach offers adjustable medialisation for improved patient outcomes. Unilateral vocal cord immobility (UVCI) can cause significant disability to voice, swallowing, and airway functions. Patients with UVCI may...

The ear-brain connection: the role of cognition in neural speech processing

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Audiologists and other hearing healthcare professionals have become increasingly interested in the importance of cognitive function in the assessment and management of hearing loss, especially in light of evidence suggesting a link between hearing loss and cognitive decline in older...

Cochlear implant referral: how can we do better?

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Considerable progress has been made over the last few years in improving access to cochlear implantation (CI) in the UK for children and adults with severe to profound deafness. But we are still not treating children early enough, and we...

Why and what should hearing care professionals know about cognitive impairment and dementia

27 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Good reasons to care about cognitive impairment and dementia in audiology If asking people what they fear most when getting to old age, it is cognitive decline that is named most often. This comes with the expectation of limitations in...

TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Transoral robotic surgery is now a well-accepted technique in malignant tumours of the tongue base. Here the team from St Mary’s and the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital in London describe its use in carefully selected patients with...

Congenital CMV: investigations and management in the audiology setting

1 July 2017 | | 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...

Rhinoplasty for cleft nose deformity

1 July 2019 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Modern cleft lip and palate repairs produce excellent functional and aesthetic results at an early age. Tony Holmes, a craniofacial surgeon with over 40 years’ experience, shares his wisdom on the best timing and techniques for addressing the associated complex...

Effects of blast and acoustic trauma: assessment of hearing status on war veterans

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Introduction Acoustical conditions of the military are often dangerous and there is a real risk of blast trauma and acoustic trauma [1, 2]. Levels of military noises maybe reach up to 125 dBA [3]. Weapons produce instant shock waves (10μs)...

Cutting burr otoplasty and conchal setback to correct prominent pinna: a ‘step by step approach’

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Otology
Prominent ears can cause significant social and psychological effects on an individual. The two most common anatomical defects for a prominent pinna are an underdeveloped anti-helical fold and / or enlarged conchal bowl. In the senior author’s practice over the...

Cancer genetics and signalling pathways in ENT – a review and discussion of how this can be applied to rare tumours

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Genetics
Introduction Cancer cases continue to increase worldwide, and­­ head and neck cancer is a major global health issue, with an estimated global burden of over 630,000 new cases and over 350,000 deaths per year [1]. The term ‘head and neck...

Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Epiphora, or abnormal tearing, occurs because of blockage in the lacrimal drainage system, which impairs normal tear channeling into the nose. Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is used to treat patients diagnosed with lacrimal sac or nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO). External DCR was...