Hearing preservation is possible in vestibular schwannoma surgery.  A vestibular schwannoma (also called an acoustic neuroma) is a non-cancerous growth on the nerve of the inner ear. The transtemporal supralabyrinthine (middle cranial fossa) approach offers surgeons the possibility to remove smaller vestibular schwannomas and preserve hearing. Hearing loss, especially in one ear, is a common

The ADHEAR adhesive bone vibrating hearing device is internationally used as a treatment modality for some types of hearing loss. The ADHEAR System from MEDEL is a revolutionary adhesive, non-surgical bone conduction hearing system that vibrates the skull, therefore bypassing the middle ear pathology and conductive hearing loss. This provides sound amplification to the cochlea

Can what I eat cause vertigo is probably the second most common question I am asked. The most common is… can stress cause my vertigo? Now, trying to answer that is like opening a can of worms! We all have stress, but not all of us has vertigo. Yes, obviously when you have a proven

Vestibular schwannoma and quality of life are interlinked when it comes to the management of patients. Quality of life (QOL), when referring to health related matters, is the way in which a patient interprets his own quality of living in daily life, related to disease or disability. It is a measure of well- being or

Stem cell therapy for the treatment of hearing and vestibular loss. What an existing possibility? But wat is the current situation and is this an option in 2018? A stem cell is a non-differentiated living cell that has the potential to differentiate into specialised tissue and to produce more stem cells. They are present in

Listeria may cause hearing loss and vertigo. With the recent outbreak of Listeriosis in South Africa (SA) it is important that the public be made aware off the potential complications of hearing loss, vertigo, disequilibrium and facial nerve palsy. In SA more that 60 patients have recently died from Listeria, a bacterial infection caused by