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In conversation with Professor Paul J Donald

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Prof Paul J Donald has recently stepped down as Chairman of the ORL-HN Department at UC Davis in Sacramento and is winding down to retirement. In this interview with Prof Pat Bradley, Prof Donald explains some of the highlights of...

Dupilumab prospective RCT for CRSwNP, a multinational trial of 60 patients with a 16-week CT follow-up

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
This transcontinental work describes a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled parallel group study over a 16-week period, assessing 60 patients with CRSwNP by CT scan scores. All patients had a four-week period of intranasal corticosteroids followed by randomisation to add...
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Nasal septoplasty: is it more effective than medical management?

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Question1. How do we know that undertaking an operation will benefit a patient? Question 2. How do policy makers / health systems know an operation is effective and ‘good value for money’? As trained professionals, we spend our careers seeking...

Chronic rhinosinusitis update

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There is still a lack of awareness of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) despite its burden, calling for events such as the recent Global Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP) Awareness Day. Research findings from recent publications by Backaert et al have...

Cochlear implants and therapeutics: a natural partnership?

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
Global awareness of cochlear implants as a solution for hearing loss is slowly increasing and gaining acceptance. The potential for combining cochlear implants with inner ear therapeutics is immense, with promise in several areas. This article takes us on a...

Use of a diode laser for the removal of a frontal sinus osteoma

1 November 2015 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In this How I Do It, Professor Sergei Karpischenko introduces a gentle method of reduction of mobilised frontal sinus osteoma which has been successfully used in five patients in his university clinic using a diode laser in contact mode. Osteoma...

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...

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

1 July 2021 | | 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...

Coblation tongue channelling

1 May 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
After uvulopalatoplasty, the tendency is to focus on the tongue base as the next anatomical area to address in the management of snoring and sleep-disordered breathing. In this article, Glen Burgess describes the technique of tongue channelling, to reduce the...

FESSing up

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
This story is dedicated to my dear friend and much-missed colleague, Heinz Stammberger, with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured). Having used a rigid endoscope in my postgrad thesis in the early 1980s to show that the...

TORS for patients with sleep-disordered breathing

1 May 2015 | | 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...

Acupuncture for tonsillectomy pain in children

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics
The challenge: tonsillectomy pain Tonsillectomy is a uniform surgical insult which results in a 10-day recovery for children. Severe pain can occur which can give rise to poor oral fluid intake, dehydration and potentially the need for intravenous fluid resuscitation....