Current options for hearing rehabilitation offer different advantages to patients with single-sided deafness, and no single modality is clearly superior to the others.
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Current options for hearing rehabilitation offer different advantages to patients with single-sided deafness, and no single modality is clearly superior to the others.
Panelists at the 2021 American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Annual Meeting discussed how to avoid unnecessary testing and when, exactly, vestibular tests are needed.
Most existing studies have found that hearing impairment results in a higher prevalence of social isolation and loneliness in the pediatric population.
Many patients who would likely benefit from implantation are never referred due to poor regional access, and, perhaps most importantly, lack of established CIE referral guidelines.
A transcanal endoscopic approach was performed with the aim of removing an epitympanic cholesteatoma without the transmastoid approach, and to reconstruct the scutum after obliteration of the epitympanum at the same time.
Sterotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for the treatment of VS can be associated with increased balance symptoms, often within the first six months after treatment.
As evidence linking hearing loss to cognitive decline mounts, researchers and clinicians are starting to explore whether automated, self-administered cognitive screening tests should be added to routine workups of patients seen in busy otolaryngology practices.
LW arrays are preferable to PM arrays for minimizing clinically relevant intracochlear trauma in cochlear implantation.
Chemosensory dysfunction is very common in COVID-19 and, although most people regain function within the first 28 days.
Cost-effectiveness varies between adults and children.