Fungi are ubiquitous microorganisms that are present in outdoor and indoor environments. Previous research has found relationships between environmental fungal exposures and human health effects. We reviewed recent articles focused on fungal exposure and dampness as risk factors for respiratory disease development, symptoms, and hypersensitivity. In particular, we reviewed the evidence suggesti...

INTRODUCTION Although fungal rhinosinusitis is a rare disorder but number of cases on record has increased manifold during the last decades worldwide There are two basic types of fungal rhinosinusitisinvasive and non-invasive. The invasive form may be of acute invasive and chronic invasive. The non-invasive fungal rhinosinusitis can be of three typesfungus balls or mycetomas, saprophytic coloni...

Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is a distinct clinicopathological entity. It occurs in immunocompetent individuals with history of atopy, increased IgE levels and peripheral eosinophilia and causes noninvasive pansinusitis. It is histologically characterised by the presence of 'allergic mucin' with clusters of eosinophils, charcot - Leyden crystals and scattered fungal hyphae. AFS is an immunol...

Chronic sinusitis is a major cause of morbidity today. Regional variations in the incidence of this disease have been reported. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of fungal infection as the causative agent of chronic sinusitis among Iranian patients. A cross sectional hospital based study was designed; the patients underwent paranasal sinus washing and maxillary sinus biopsy. A...

In this study, the author used endoscopic sinus photography to study the effects of reduction of fungi in the nose, and in environmental air, on the sinus mucosa of 639 patients diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis. Sinus mucosal photographs were taken before and after reduction of fungal load in the nose and air, to determine if there was an optimum environmental air fungal load associated wi...

Fungal sinusitis secondary to Pseudallescheria boydii is rare, as only 25 cases have been previously reported in the literature. Although Pboydii resembles Aspergillus on pathologic examination, it is typically resistant to amphotericin B. Therefore, culture is necessary to differentiate the two. Patients with P boydii sinusitis should generally be treated with a combination of surgery and anti...

BACKGROUND Allergic fungal sinusitis (AFS) is considered a different disease from other polypoid chronic rhinosinusitis diseases (CRS) with eosinophilic mucus (EM) termed eosinophilic mucus chronic rhinosinusitis (EMCRS). To substantiate this, studies on cellular responses to fungi and sinus mucosal inflammatory cell populations in AFS and other EMCRS diseases are required. This study was desig...

Objective. The aim of our study was to try to determine the possible environmental risk factors for noninvasive fungal sinusitis in Egyptian patients. Methods. This is a prospective epidemiological case control study on the environmental risk factors of noninvasive fungal sinusitis. It included 60 patients and 100 age and sex matched controls. Results. There was a statistically significant rela...