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Hearing rehabilitation after vestibular schwannoma surgery

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Hearing rehabilitation is a key focus of the management of patients with vestibular schwannoma. But how do we rehabilitate hearing when the cochlear nerve has been damaged by tumour, irradiation, or resective surgery? Mathieu Trudel, Scott Rutherford and Simon Lloyd...

Taking a fresh look at otoacoustic emissions

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
So what has changed in four decades of OAEs? Do we now have all the answers? Have we reached our optimum recording ability? Professor Kemp explains what we know, what we don’t know and what’s to come. In the 40...

Thyroid dysfunction and Meniere’s disease: is there a relationship?

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
The set of symptoms described as Meniere’s disease may have several causative factors. Timothy Hain and Patthida Maroongroge look for a relationship in the literature between Meniere’s disease and hypothyroidism. Meniere’s disease (MD) affects around two in 1000 people and...

EEG as a measure of neuroplasticity in children

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Measuring changes in neural activity can teach us a lot about hearing loss and the effect of gained functional hearing. In this article, the authors describe how electroencephalography (EEG) is being used to effectively measure such changes in children with...

Audiology and ophthalmology: a comparative perspective on diagnostics and patient care

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
What are the similarities and differences between audiology and ophthalmic practices, and what can we learn from each other? Rosalyn Painter finds out. I’m here with Chris Gordon and Anthony Vukic from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to find out...

The Airway Intervention Registry: Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (AIR: RRP) data collection

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Laryngeal papillomatosis remains a frustratingly difficult condition to treat. Adam Donne and Steven Powell tells us about a collaborative project aiming to enhance patient care. The first UK Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis registry opened in April 2018 through the AIR (Airway...

New curricula: trainees’ and trainers’ thoughts

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
After the disruption to training and clinical practice from COVID, it is interesting and perhaps encouraging that plans are in place to support ENT training in both mainland Europe and the UK with new formal curricula. We hear trainees’ and...

Robotics in rhinology – fantasy or the future?

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Robotic surgery is advancing, but its use in rhinology lags due to spatial constraints and high costs. Innovations in flexible robots may bridge this gap in the future. We are in a new era, one of artificial intelligence and robotics....

Advanced in-office awake rhinology

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In-office awake rhinology transforms sinonasal care, offering safe, cost-effective, minimally invasive procedures with rapid recovery and high patient satisfaction. In recent years, the landscape of otolaryngological surgery has undergone a remarkable transformation with the advent of in-office awake surgical procedures....

The experience of being a new ENT SHO

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
In this article, Matt Donachie shares insights on the daunting yet enjoyable experience of starting as an ENT junior doctor, offering valuable advice. Starting your first job as a junior doctor in any specialty in the UK can be a...

Tele-audiometry – a ShoeBOX solution

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Access to hearing assessment is a global challenge. In relation to the global burden of hearing loss World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) recent estimate (2013) is that 360 million people in the world have disabling hearing impairment. Two-thirds of these people...

In conversation with Professor John Fenton

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
John Fenton, Republic of Ireland, has recently been appointed President of the Union Européene Des Médicins Spécialistes (UEMS) ORL or European Union of Medical Specialists ORL Section. We caught up with him to find out a little more about his...