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Ear, nose and throat surgery in children – where will it be in 15 and 50 years?
Michael Kuo, David Albert and Mike Saunders have put their collective heads together to predict the future of ENT surgery in children; will there be a rise in workload due to increasing survival of children with complex medical problems? Or...
Canal plugging for intractable Meniere’s disease
In this single centre retrospective study, the authors applied semicircular canal plugging, well known as a treatment for refractory BPPV, to intractable unilateral Meniere’s disease (MD) that had failed to respond to medical treatment with betahistine and hydrochlorothiazide. However, in...ENT and audiology in the Land of a Thousand Hills
Rwanda is a beautiful country known as the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. It is located in the Great Rift Valley in East Africa and shares borders with Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all offering direct...From the editor March/April 2024
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk Changes are afoot here at ENT & Audiology News, so loyal readers will notice a few differences for March/April...Ida Institute closing down
In a significant shift for the field of hearing care, Demant has announced the closure of the Ida Institute. On 8 October, the Denmark-based hearing healthcare giant has confirmed that future developments in person-centred care will be led directly by...10th Congress of Czech and Slovak Societies of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
The forthcoming biannual 10th Congress of Czech and Slovak Societies of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery is set to take place from 18 – 20 September 2024 in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Preoperative imaging for thyroid cancer according to 2015 ATA guidelines
The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) management guidelines for adult patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer suggest that thyroid sonography with survey of the cervical lymph nodes should be performed in all patients with known or suspected thyroid...First UK Genio Nyxoah bilateral hypoglossal nerve stimulator implant for obstructive sleep apnoea
Obstructive sleep apnoea remains a very challenging condition to treat, but more options are becoming available. An estimated eight million adults in the UK suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and experience symptoms of troublesome snoring, daytime sleepiness and witnessed...
Should intratympanic steroids be the first line treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss?
This article looked at whether intratympanic steroids (ITS) provide more benefits over systemic steroid therapy (SST) as initial therapy in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL). This meta-analysis study, based on published RCTs, concluded that ITS treatment exhibited...
Gamma Knife surgery for persistent or recurrent trigeminal neuralgia
Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia continues to be challenging. The treatment options include pharmacotherapy, or failing this, surgical options like microvascular decompression (MVD), radiofrequency ablation, pencil beam convolution and Gamma Knife surgery. The authors of this article have presented a series...
A review of endoscopic sinus surgery outcomes
This review discusses the outcome measures that may be considered in the assessment of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) as well as the outcomes of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) published so far. The authors also discuss the role of peri-operative...
