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Minimum stimulus strategy for the diagnosis of BPPV

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Explore the innovative minimum stimulus strategy (MSS) for diagnosing benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), enhancing accuracy while minimising patient discomfort. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a common vestibular disorder where canalolithiasis or cupulolithiasis causes sudden episodes of vertigo, triggered...

Breaking barriers in Uganda: the story of Elaine Mukaaya

1 July 2019 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
More than 9% of sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people live with disabling hearing loss, with children having among the highest rates of childhood hearing loss in the world [1]. Sadly, in concordance with the inverse care law – proposed by...

Empowering hearing rehabilitation professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
The Hearing Healthcare Alliance empowers professionals across Africa and Asia through comprehensive training programmes, improving local hearing rehabilitation services. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 430 million people worldwide require rehabilitation for disabling hearing loss [1]. This number...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...

Transnasal oesophagoscopy (TNO) and balloon dilatation under a local anaesthesia

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Many of us are becoming more and more familiar with the use of transnasal oesophagoscopy. It has a number of well-described uses in the outpatient setting and is well tolerated by our patients. Yakubu Karagama describes taking this technique a...

Percutaneous fibre guided laser surgery of the endolarynx

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Occasionally, getting access to the larynx for an intervention can be challenging. Markus Hess and Susanne Fleischer describe a novel way to perform laser treatment in such difficult instances. Fibre guided office-based endolaryngeal laser surgery has developed to be a...

In conversation with Erwin Offeciers

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Professor Erwin Offeciers is a renowned adult and paediatric otologist, living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. He has extensive experience in cochlear implantation and has also spearheaded the well described bony obliteration technique. He is to sit on the forthcoming...

In conversation with Chrysa Spyridakou, Robert Nash, Emma Clement, Nish Mehta and Anne GM Schilder

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Jaclyn Tan interviews members of the London-based multidisciplinary hearing team, about their insights to auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, and their vision for the future management of this challenging range of conditions. Auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) describes a wide range...

Frederik Dikkers: championing change in laryngology

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Prof Dikkers shares the details of his journey into ENT surgery, his dedication to treating laryngeal papillomatosis, and his pioneering advancements in button battery safety. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is one of the most frustrating conditions managed by laryngologists. There...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

In conversation with Professor Claire Hopkins

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There can be few ENT surgeons who have had such a pivotal role in the COVID pandemic as Claire Hopkins. She has been instrumental in changing the diagnostic criteria, and has been a frequent presence in the media, as Sean...

Upper airway endoscopy: achieving a balanced service whilst minimising the conflict of sustainability

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Nasal endoscopes present a unique challenge in balancing sustainability and practicality. Both disposable and reusable scopes may have distinct roles in modern practice. Flexible endoscopy of the upper aerodigestive tract is an essential technique that facilitates detailed assessment of the...