Sensorineural hearing loss after cardiac surgery: a systematic review.

Background: Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) may occur following cardiac surgery. Although preventing post-operative complications is vitally important in cardiac surgery, there are few guidelines regarding this issue. This review aimed to characterize SNHL after cardiac surgery.

Customised acoustic therapy delivered through a web-based platform-An innovative approach to tinnitus treatment.

Objectives: Customised acoustic therapy aims to moderate the neural pathways implicated in the pathophysiology of tinnitus. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of customised acoustic therapy administered via a web-based treatment platform.

Design: Clinical trial with prospective recruitment.

FiveQ: A new easy-to-use validated clinical instrument for tinnitus severity.

Objectives: Tinnitus is a complex and debilitating phenomenon with potentially significant implications on quality of life. New presentations can be resource and time intensive for clinicians. Validated comprehensive tinnitus questionnaires may lack practical utility in the high-volume clinical setting.

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour arising in the submandibular gland.

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours (MPNSTs) are tumours that arise from or differentiate towards cells of the peripheral nerve sheath. They are extremely rare with an incidence of 0.001% in the general population.

Snap, crackle and pop: when sneezing leads to crackling in the neck.

Spontaneous perforation of the pharynx is an unusual condition. Due to its non-specific presentation and general lack of awareness, diagnosis and intervention may be delayed resulting in potential complications. This case reports a rare spontaneous perforation of the pyriform sinus after a forceful sneeze, leading to cervical subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum.

Does incidental mastoid opacification on computerized tomography necessitate referral to ENT?

Objective: The prevalence of incidental temporal bone disease on magnetic resonance imaging has been widely reported in the medical literature. Despite this, there currently is little evidence regarding incidental otological disease on computerized tomography (CT). Thus, the study aimed to review the CT prevalence of asymptomatic adult ear disease and evaluate the appropriateness of ear, nose, and throat (ENT) referral following its discovery.

Effect of epithelial stem cell transplantation on noise-induced hearing loss in adult mice.

Noise trauma in mammals can result in damage to multiple epithelial cochlear cell types, producing permanent hearing loss. Here we investigate whether epithelial stem cell transplantation can ameliorate noise-induced hearing loss in mice. Epithelial stem/progenitor cells isolated from adult mouse tongue displayed extensive proliferation in vitro as well as positive immunolabelling for the epithelial stem cell marker p63.