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Scientific Foundations of Audiology: Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling and Medicine

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
Scientific Foundations of Audiology – Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling and Medicine is a unique textbook which discusses a wide range of state-of-the-art topics in hearing, vestibular and brain science. The editors purport that this book is geared towards doctoral...
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Blocked nose in children with allergic rhinitis

1 May 2017 | | allergic rhinitis, nasal obstruction, nasal septum deformity, paediatrics, turbinate hyperplasia
Nasal obstruction is a classic symptom in children with allergic rhinitis. While the nasal obstructive disorders including septal deformity, turbinate hyperplasia and adenoidal enlargement are widely recognised in adult nasal blockage, their relationship with paediatric allergic rhinitis however, is scarcely...
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Recurrent ENT infections in children – is it a sign of primary immunodeficiency disease?

1 January 2019 | | antibody, immunoglobulin, intravenous administration, polysaccharide, primary immunodeficiency diseases, subcutaneous administration
ENT clinicians often come across children with recurrent ear, sinus and pulmonary infections. These recurrent infections, albeit common in childhood, can represent an early sign of primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDD). PIDD is an underdiagnosed group of genetic disorders involving absent...
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Association between Meniere’s disease and vestibular migraine

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery | Headache, Migraine, Ménière’s disease, Vestibular migraine
Meniere’s disease (MD) and vestibular migraine (VM) are two conditions with overlap in their symptoms. There is often a lack of understanding regarding symptom-based differentiation between them. MD presents with episodic vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss and tinnitus. MD has been...

Professor Heinz Stammberger’s pioneering contribution and legacy in the field of FESS

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
It is no exaggeration to say that functional endoscopic sinus surgery would not exist in its current form without Heinz Stammberger. Prof Valerie Lund traces the development of this relatively recent surgical technique. In the early 1980s, a happy combination...

BAPRAS Congress 2025

3 December 2025 -5 December 2025 | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery
BAPRAS Congress 2025 returns to Belfast for the first time since the 1990s, bringing together the plastic-surgery community at the ICC from 3–5 December 2025. As the flagship event of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons –...

Body self-image – the ENT perspective

1 January 2017 | | ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Rhinoplasty
Body dysmorphic disorder is a serious psychiatric condition that we all need to be aware of when contemplating aesthetic surgery. It can present in children as well as adults. Prof Vieira and Dr de Carvalho discuss the tell-tale signs and...

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...

Continuous intraoperative neural monitoring and thyroid surgery

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Continuous intraoperative neural monitoring enhances thyroid surgery safety, helping predict and prevent recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in real time. Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury with resultant vocal cord paralysis (VCP) can have a significant impact on patient quality of life...

Developing outcome measures for research

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
There are challenges in developing outcomes measures; Professor Hall presents five top pointers for making rapid progress in developing outcome measures for research purposes. Anyone who has worked clinically with hearing loss will appreciate that every patient’s experience is personal....

Have we reached our limits in endoscopic skull base surgery?

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
As being an anterior skull base surgeon becomes the aspiration of many ENT trainees, Professor Nicolai gives his personal insights into the future for this exciting subspeciality. Having been directly involved in the evolution of transnasal endscopic surgery (TES) since...

Assessment of genetic disorders: congenital sensorineural hearing loss

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Genetics, ENTA - Otology
Severe or profound sensorineural hearing impairment (SNHI) is a common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in 1000 newborns [1]. SNHI may result from environmental causes or have a genetic basis. The genetic causes can be further subdivided into non-syndromic (isolated...